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Description: | Gilded silver pin with hollow spherical filigree-decorated head. The head is now incomplete, but can be seen to have been made in two halves with a horizontal soldered seam. The diameter at the seam is 7 mm. Each half is decorated with three pellets, each set within a collar of beaded wire and then surrounded by an outer circle of beaded wire. In between these circles are further single pellets. At the very top there would probably have been another pellet, and in the centre of the lower half the shaft emerges. Most of the top half is missing (fresh breaks), showing that the shaft protruding through into the head; it stops before the halfway seam. There is green corrosion here showing the presence of some copper, perhaps in the solder. The shaft is 1.5 mm in diameter at the top, and has a bend quite near the top which has caused some stress to the metal and loss of surface. Another bend nearer the bottom of the shaft does not appear to have caused any stress. The tip of the shaft is missing; the surviving unbent length of the shaft is 43 mm, and the total unbent length of the pin is c. 51 mm. This is a small example of a well-known Tudor pin type; the type is very similar to a middle Anglo-Saxon pin type. | Subjects: | ball headed | 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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