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Description: | The pin lock is made from cast copper alloy. In length it is 36.8mm. The circular base is 18.4mm diameter.
The lower portion of the pin is a sub-conical shape. The base of the conical has a concave surface with a central conical shaped cell which is 3.2mm in diameter. This conical cell is slightly high-relief around its rim. The exterior surface of the conical body has a fine linear groove around the base as decoration. The tip of the conical is cut short by an integral circular disc which is 12.6mm in diameter. In profile this disc has a 'C' shape.
Protruding from the centre of the upper platform of the disc is a elongated trapezoidal shaped rod. The rod is integral to the disc and conical body. The rod terminates with slightly rounded corners and has a circular hole. In profile the rod tapers to a blunt edge at this upper terminal.
Most of the surface is covered by a well developed shiny blue/green coloured patina.
The lock pin dates to the Roman period. Crummy in the Colchester Reports illustrates two lock pins, No. 4143 is very similar to the recorded example. The Colchester examples date from the mid 1st to 3rd centuries. | Subjects: | Pin | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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