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Description: | Early Saxon copper alloy mount, buckle plate or strap fitting, perhaps with significant secondary modifications. Rectangular plate with raised border around Style I interlaced animal design in low relief. The plate thins slightly from one end to the other, the thinner end having slightly more rounded corners, with a recessed flange at the thicker end.The flange has a central circular piercing and is broken accross at least two further piercings, with a thick patch of silver coloured solder at the edge. There are two further circular holes inside the raised border at the flanged end, one in each corner.The edges of the plate are worn making it difficult to tell if the narrow end is broken, or there is any original edge of the flange surviving. This may originally have been a mount similar in form to NLM4176, or a buckle plate (Marzinzik, 2003, BAR 357, 42 - 42, Type 11. 14 or 11.15) with secondary modifications or repairs.Surviving length 31mm. Width 19mm. Maximum thickness 3mm.6th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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