File:Parallel to SUR-AA6238, from Fairford (FindID 117686).jpg

English: A fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy rectangular plate, decorated in Salin's Style I and cut down perhaps to form a pendant. The plate has lost its top and lower sections (viewed along its long axis), but the Style I limbs of the two chasing quadrupeds can still be made out. They run around a raised rectangular centre, which is an attempt to imitate the central garnet setting that this group typically displays. The central rectangle has a ridged border, and another ridged border runs around the outside of the Style I relief decoration.

The plate has clearly been broken up and reused, perhaps as a necklace pendant. Two circular drilled holes survive on one short edge and adjacent to them is the edge of a third. They cut through the Style I, with no apparent regard for the ornament. The cutting up of the object itself also seems careless; although one edge is straight, running along the line of the border to the central rectangle, the other is both oblique and stepped. Both edges have slight grooves within, however, which look like preliminary guide lines.

A good parallel to the complete form comes from a complete buckle from Fairford, now in the Ashmolean Museum (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, no. 34.24). The attached image has been created by Chris Fern and shows the Fairford buckle plate cut down to the same shape as the West Clandon plate. Marzinzik's study does not apparently include this buckle but does illustrate several others as her type II.14a, whcih she dates to the late 5th to late 6th centuries (2003, 42-43, pls 84-85).

This type of rectangular plate is generally cast on its own and then either left as a belt mount, or riveted to a pair of sheet-metal hinge loops to form a buckle plate. It is impossible with an incomplete example to tell if it was originally used as a mount or a buckle plate.