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Description: | This 17th century silver head dress pin is rectangular in plan, tapering to a blunt point, and is subrectangular in section. It is incomplete, as the broader, top end has broken away at the point of a rectangular perforation, which is now without its top, fourth side. Holding the pin horizontally, with the pin end to the right, on both sides, next to the perforation, are two incised vertical lines. Beyond these, again on both sides, is an incised ??V?? shape pointing towards the tip of the pin. Beyond that, on one side of the pin only, are the incised initials MC. The rest of the shaft is plain.The pin has a surviving length of 83.7mm, is 3.02mm at its widest point, is 1.96mm thick and weighs 3.93g.
This head dress pin would have had approximately 3mm extra in length when complete, with the head of the pin having a decorated terminal and another perforation for the suspension of a pendant. This perforation has lead many people to mistake them for bodkins. They were used in the Low Countries and would have been brought to England by immigrants. Similar pins have been found in Norfolk and Suffolk, and this is only the second recorded for Essex. See record ESS-D44BB8. See also Margeson, 1993, Norwich Households, page 9, plate III for a very close parallel.
This item is currently going through the Treasure process, under the requirements of the Treasure Act 1996. | Subjects: | Head Dress | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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