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Description: | An incomplete middle Anglo-Saxon silver pin, the shaft of this pin is incomplete due to an old break. The pin head is a solid cube with its corners faceted/cut off, measuring 5.5mm by 5.5mm in size. The upper face of the head is decorated with a central ring and dot motif and five circular indentations around its edges. There is no collar and the surviving fragment of shaft is circular in cross-section and measures 2mm in width and c4mm in surviving length. This pin weighs 1.49g.
Pins with faceted heads, such as this example are beleieved to be 8th or 9th century in date. It is similar to a silver pin Baylam, Suffolk Treasure Act case T330/2003 and another from South Warnborough, Hampshire identified by S M Youngs (Treasure Annual Report 2000, p41, no 56). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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