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Description: | Incomplete Roman bone pin. This pin has a roughly spherical head with a slightly flattened top and is slightly conical on its base. The head has a diamter of 7.16mm and a height of 4.88mm. The shaft is circular in section and is swollen in the middle and tapers slightly to the point, which is missing. The break is clean and horizontal, and as the exposed area is worn smooth, it presumably happened in antiquity. The original surface of the pin has worn away, though tiny patches of it are visible, being brown, smooth and glossy. The surface now visible is abraded, dull and light brown in colour.The surviving length of the pin is 92.30mm, the shaft has a diameter of 3.18mm, swelling to 4.16mm (before diminishing again). It weighs 1.98g. Examples of spherical headed pins from Colchester can be seen in Crummy, 1983, figure 19. Following this group, this pin probably dates to the 3rd or 4th centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McDonald, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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