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Description: | A cast cu-alloy polyhedral pin of early medieval date (mid-late Anglo-Saxon, i.e. c. AD700-900. The pin is incomplete with most of the shaft missing; the break is rough and looks almost 'splintered'; the head, however, is complete. The pin has a very roughly polyhedral head, formed from a cuboid with its corners cut off at irregular intervals. The triangles and lozenges thus formed are not regular. The main four fields on back, front and (slide smaller) on the sides are more or less square and decorated with drilled ring-and-dot decoration. There is one on each of the smaller side facets and four on the two main facets on the front and rear (see e.g. Hinton 1996, 22; fig. 9). Additional ring-and-dot motifs are on the eight corner facets. The head and shaft are separated by a small collar which is undecorated. Below the collar the shaft is circular, although at the top it looks almost faceted, and of somewhat crudely octagonal cross-section. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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