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Description: | Spherical pin head with stub of shaft topped with a collar. Decorated with 5 irregularly spaced blobs of inlaid brownish ?enamel around the top and circumference, and another 3 pits which may be corrosion bubbles or may be empty champlev?? enamel cells. Overall length 12 mm. Diameter of head 8 mm. Old break. From the form of the pin, it is certainly Middle Anglo-Saxon. Susan Youngs at the British Museum has examined the pin under a microscope, and comments that the brownish blobs look possibly vitreous. They appear to be a semi-translucent brown, which is not known in Middle Anglo-Saxon enamelling. She raised the possibility that they could instead be beads of glass. What they look most like, however, is iron corrosion; but no parallel is known for this. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | 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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