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Description: | A copper alloy pin dating to the second or third century AD. The pin comprises a circular section tapering stem ending in a point which is broken. Where the stem meets the head, there are two reel mouldings followed by a spool and reel. The head is a flattened sphere. The pin measures 65mm in length and the head has a diameter of 8mm. The pin is of Crummy's Type 2 [Pins with heads of bead, reel and spool motifs surmounted by a flattened sphere] and can be paralleled by several excavated from Colchester (Crummy, 1983, 28, 467-473) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Walton, Phillippa - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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