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Description: | Fragment of a gilt, cast copper alloy, plate of probable Early Medieval date, It is roughly square or lozenge-shaped and bears raised decoration consisting of a circular central boss surrounded by four smaller bosses, all set within raised rings. Between each of the four bosses is a group of two pellets and a bar. A raised rim survives around part of the edge. Gilding is restricted to the plate's face, its rear is corroded but bears traces of tinning/silvering. The plate bears no obvious signs of attachment points or thickening of its edge indicative of it being a part of a larger object. Condition generally good, but with some loss of gilding from the high points. 22.7 x 21.4mm, thickness 1.8mm, height at central boss 3.4mm, mass 4.38g.It has not been possible to identify this object with any certainty. The bossed decoration can be paralleled on the terminals on an Early Medieval penannular brooches; possibly a simplified version of a brooch from the St Ninian's Isle Hoard (Youngs, 1989, No. 105). The subject of this record is, however, very thin for this interpretation and there is no sign of how it might have joined the brooch's ring.
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