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Description: | The head and part of the stem of a Roman copper alloy pin. The upper part of the head is cylindrical in shape with a slightly convex top. The top of the head is decorated with incised radiating grooves dividing it into thirteen unevenly sized segments. These grooves continue down the sides of the cylindrical part of the head, where two grooves around the circumference divide the sides into two rows of small raised squares, each with four faceted sides. Below a groove, the head narrows to a plain inverted conical section with a biconical collar below this, between the head and the stem. The stem is circular in section and appears to taper above the break. The head is 13.5mm long from the base of the collar.
While no exact parallel could be found, the decoration on this pin is consistent with that found on Roman metal pins (for example the use of a cylindrical head divided into segements and the use of radiating grooves on the upper part). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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