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English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle plate which is Anglo-Saxon and most likely to be late 6th or early 7th century in date. Most likely to be a shield on tongue type, with the back plate, buckle frame, and pin now missing.

 This plate is triangular in shape and measures 27.6mm in length and 11.4mm in width, the tip of the plate is missing due to an old break.  It has a rectangular pin slot, the edges of which are also incomplete.  The front face of the plate is decorated with an interlace design which could be zoomorphic.  The design starts behind the pin slot with a concave edge. 
 

 
  There are two parallel circular depressions, each c6.3mm in diameter, behind the pin slot and there is the remains of a third circular depression at the tip of the plate.  These depressions are likely to have held a setting of some kind originally, other parallels often have domed bosses. The two parallel depressions have integral cylindrical rivets projecting from their back face.
 

 
 There is seperate copper-alloy rivet through the incomplete terminal end, this may have been original or possibly added after the tip of the plate broke away so that the plate could continue to be used.  There is a another probable rivet hole through the centre of the plate behind the pin slot between the parallel circular depressions, this hole is incorporated into the interlace design and has a circular border. 
 

 

This buckle plate is similar to examples from Cambridgeshire (Mac Gregor and Bolick 1993, 195-6, no 34.13).