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Description: | A cast copper alloy buckle pin. The pin is a sub-rectangle in plan and in profile, forms a curled pennanular shape, which would have curled around the strap bar of a buckle frame. The pin in plan has a broken terminal just after the loop, this break is not recent. The upper surface, as the curl starts, is decorated with a three transverse linear ridges. The pin has a brown patina. It measures 18.01mm long, 3.69mm wide and weighs 2.2g.
In Ottaway (Ottaway, P. and Rogers, N. 2002 Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds From Medieval York York Archaeological Trust and CBA) there is a similar example, No. 14336, which is dated to the 14th century. These pins are used an annular buckles. | Subjects: | Pin | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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