Forty x-ray fluorescence analyses of Anglo-Saxon period copper alloy objects are presented, from a recent rescue excavation of a cemetery at Watchfield, Oxfordshire. These results are compared with those from Sutton Hoo, together with the few other data available in the literature. It is suggested that these and other Anglo-Saxon copper alloy objects could have been made entirely from scrap brass and pewter, although this cannot be proved from such analyses. In addition, a white metal alloy is identified, containing copper and tin, with a little zinc but no silver, of a type previously found in Continental Merovingian contexts. This, together with the more common quaternary metal, apparently represents a deliberate attempt to imitate both silver and gold using appropriate copper alloys.