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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Iron Age linch pin terminal, which is the foot of the pin. The foot has a deep square socket, inside a cylindrical, tapering shaft. This square aperture would have held the iron pin, which has long since corroded away. Traces of this iron pin can be seen in the socket. The exterior of the shaft tapers down to the opposite terminal, to where it curves around and is attached to a flat circular plate.
The surface is pitted but remains in a good condition, with a mid brownish-green patina. The flat, circular plate is slightly recessed on the front surface. Inside this recess a raised central pellet can be seen. There are traces of enamel on the foot but this is hidden by dirt.
Linch pin terminals date to the late Iron Age period, circa 100BC to 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 circa 100BC to circa 100AD. The closest local parallels can be seen in Stead, p44-6. These examples were found in cemetery contexts in East Yorkshire. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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LINCH PIN
Cast copper-alloy terminal (foot) from…
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