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Description: | A copper-alloy hooked artefact, probably a pin used as a dress accessory and possibly. The item measures 70.1 mm in length and is 3.3 mm thick. The arefact has a slightly curved shaft, perhaps as a result of accident rather than design, and has a hook at one end, projecting from the shaft at a right angle. It is somewhat uncertain whether this hook is a result of an accidental bend or whether it was intentional. On the shaft, 10.6 mm before the hook is a decorative collar, 10.1 mm in length, which has horizontal banded decoration on it. At the opposite end the artefact exhibits a break. The break is not particularly worn suggesting that it reflects recent rather than ancient damage to the object.
Given the hooked end, this artefact also resembles Roman medical implements, and there is a possibility that it may relate to the practice of medicine. However, the relatively poor preservation of the artefact makes it difficult to assess whether its shape is deliberate, and such suggestions must remain tentative. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brindle, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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