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Description: | Head and part of shaft from a copper-alloy cup-headed pin. The head is circular, 15 mm in diameter, and is 5 mm thick, with a 2 mm deep recess in the top and a rounded underside. The recess has a pale green encrustation and its sides are crudely grooved, as if to key it for an inlay. The shaft is not quite central to the head; it is oval in cross-section and tapers from 3 x 4 mm at the top to 2 x 1 mm at the old break, where it may have worn thin. The shaft is bent at an angle and in its present condition the total length is 19 mm. Cup-headed pins are known from the late Bronze Age (Ewart Park phase), but these tend to be larger and do not have inlays or settings in the head; they are also very rare. O'Connor (Cross-Channel Relations in the Later Bronze Age (1980) 201, 560-1, fig. 71.3) lists only three from England, one from Scotland and one from the Netherlands, although they are said to be commoner in Ireland (e.g. that illustrated in Megaw and Simpson, Introduction to British Prehistory (1979) fig. 6.37.3). Alternatively, an Iron Age or Roman date is possible. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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