English: A fragment from a copper-alloy buckle plate of late Roman to early Early-medieval date. This piece is a typical example of the so-called 'Soldiers and settlers' material of the late 4th to early 5th century AD. It is classified as type IIA buckle plate (see S.C. Hawkes and C.G. Dunning; 1961; pp. 53).

Only the bottom part of what would originally have been a sub-rectangular buckle plate remains. The main part of the plate is of an elaborate openwork design, with three parallel rectangular voids, each terminating at the bottom in a circular hole. The bases of the two central 'columns' are each decorated with a pair of punched ring and dot marks of two different sizes. The vertical outer edges of the buckle have a punched scale-like pattern and towards the bottom end of each side is an upward-pointing hook-like protrusion. Each of the two bottom corners has a triangular projection ending in a circular lug (the left hand one is missing), whilst at the centre point of the bottom edge an openwork loop gives way below to a further circular lug. On the reverse, at each of the two bottom corners is an integral rivet.

The object is bent and corroded. It measures 26.8mm high by 34.4mm wide and 7mm thick; it weighs 7.52g.