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Description: | A lozenge-shaped pin head 12mm by 11 mm set diagonally atop a pin of 1.5mm gauge. The lozenge format is actually a flattened and reorganized version of a facetted pin head, with the two lozenge faces greatly enlarged, and all the others greatly squashed or compressed but still represented by angles and facets.
The top and two side ends of the lozenge are small hexagons, in the 5.5mm thickness of the head. Between them the diagonal sides are carinated, or chamfered longitudinally, to create two angles or facets.The lower angled sides are shaped similarly. Each separate angle, with the single exception of the top hexagon, has a single ring and dot upon it, the dot deeply marked and apparently containing whitish powder, though this may be merely bronze corrosion products. On each of the large lozenge faces there are four rings and dots, one in each corner. A fragment of the shaft of this pin survives it is 5mm in length and has a circular cross-section, 1mm in diameter.
This pin is most likely to be middle to late Anglo-Saxon in date. | Subjects: | pin head facetted and ring and dot Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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