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Description: | An unusual copper alloy probable pin beater, a circular-sectioned shank tapering to a point at both ends, with two broken transverse grooves near the mid-point. Diameter 6mm. Length 125mm. The pin beater would have been inserted between individual warp threads and used at right angles to the plane of the weft. Cf. more usual bone examples in MacGregor (1985), 188-9, Rogerson and Dallas (1984), figs.191-3, and Riddler in Wallis (2004), 58-9, fig.40. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Crawford, Becky | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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