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Description: | A cast copper alloy Iron Age linch pin terminal, which is the foot of the pin. Only a fragment of the terminal remains. The lynch pin terminal originally would have had a sub conical shaped profile, whose tip terminates with a large flat integral disc which has then been folded to one side so the disc is vertical. What remains of the terminal is the disc portion. The disc has abraded edges and composed of a domed crescentic border. Within this border there is a central circular cell which has traces of red enamel. This cell is within a concentric ring. The field between the ring and cell has a ??~?? design around which the field is decorated with fine pecking. The reverse of the disc there is an integral protrusion which is angled at c. 45??. The terminal of the protrusion has a broken edge which is not too recent, but was not made in antiquity. The surface of the object has a well developed mid green/grey patina which has a slightly sparkly surface which is probably the remains of a white metal alloy wash. There is a patch of active copper alloy corrosion. The terminal measures 20.43mm long and 22.05mm wide across the disc. It weighs 13.3g.
Linch pin terminals date to the late Iron Age period, c. 100BC to c. 50AD. Sometimes this shaped terminal of a composite linch pin is known as ??hoof?? type terminal (Hutcheson, N. 2004 Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, landscape and society B.A.R. 361 p. 109). Hutcheson illustrates similar examples, No. 46, and dates these to c. 100BC to c. 100AD. Another enamelled linch pin terminal was recorded from Warndon, Worcestershire (WAW-A7EE21). | Subjects: | Terminal | 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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