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A gold artefact comprising a rectangular strip decorated with beaded wire. The strip has parallel sides and straight ends, but is slightly distorted and bent out of shape at one end. At one corner is a small additional gold strip, applied to the back of the larger strip but now partly torn away and twisted at a right-angle. This smaller strip is pierced, presumably for attachment. A small lumpy accretion on the adjacent corner may be the remains of a second attachment hole. At the opposite short end of the strip is a seam-like feature where the end of the strip appears to have been deliberately folded back on itself.

The front of the strip is decorated with an interlace design in Salin's Style II, executed in beaded wire. It comprises a sub-symmetrical pattern of two fairly open, interlacing knots, one at each end of the strip and entwined in the centre. The interlace has no obvious zoomorphic features, such as mouths or heads, and may be geometric in nature. Areas of the beaded wire are very worn, so that the definition of the individual beads has been lost. The whole design is contained within a border of a single strand of beaded wire, running around all four edges of the strip. The back of the strip is plain.