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Description: | Incomplete Middle Bronze Age copper alloy Quoit-headed pin, very large, the ??quoit?? head formed of a flat-faced and flattish-sided ring, raised slightly and with multiple notches at the margins, only a fragment of which survives and from the base of which projects a rounded sub-rectangular-sectioned shank that becomes circular-sectioned and is bent in three places before an ancient rounded break, point missing. Both faces of the flat ring are decorated with very fine incised multiple lines in a chevron pattern at the springing of the shank. Additionally both faces have traces of at least two triangles with bordering incised lines containing of multiple transverse lines. Diameter of ring very approximately, 150mm. length of shank, >186mm. cf. a very similar example found in the Barton Bendish Hoard (Lawson (1985) Norfolk Archeaology 39, 169-175, see also Lawson (1979) Antiquaries Journal 59, 121-24)) now in the Ashmolean Museum, illustrated in Hawkes (1954) in Inventaria Archaeologica, GB. 7, 2 (1), no.4. ??Ornament Horizon??, 12th century BC. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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