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Description: | A 16th century copper-alloy dress-pin with hollow-cast spherical head. The head is divided into two hemispheres by a ropework ridge. The bent and broken shaft is still attached.
The head is applied with filigree and granulated ornament in the form of circles and knops.
Spherical-headed dress-pins were used by women to secure dress or hair during the sixteenth century. These fittings are normally silver-gilt. A similar silver-gilt pin can be seen in Treasure Annual Report 2000, pp93, No. 189 or Treasure Annual Report 2005 T313 (forthcoming).
Copper gilt examples of similar fittings are known but are not very common in terms of survival patterns. A similar dress hook was recorded in Willingdon and Jevington (East Sussex). PAS database number: SUSS-360956. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Clifford, Trista - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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