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Description: | Nearly spherical head from a pin, made of gilded copper alloy. From its weight, the pinhead is hollow. It is slightly elongated, and decorated with a small pellet on the top, and two pairs of opposed slanting S-shape spirals on the sides (to give the effect of four spirals around the top half, and four around the bottom half). Each spiral has another small pellet at the centre. At the bottom are three collars made of twisted wire, which decrease in size down to a deep undecorated collar which ends in a ridge. This collar is broken in one place, and this break shows that it appears to be wrapped around an inner copper alloy shaft. Below the collar, the shaft is then encased in a sheath of ?silver, which narrows sharply a little way down (perhaps at the end of the inner shaft) and is decorated at this point with a collar. A tiny stub of shaft continues beneath the collar but is soon broken.Was this once a complete gilded copper-alloy pin whose shaft broke, and was then encased in a silver repair?Middle Anglo-Saxon, 8th to 9th century | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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