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Description: | Pinhead with inlaid silver scroll decoration. The pinhead is hollow and is made from thin sheet copper-alloy in the shape of a near-cube with the corners cut off. It is 16 mm tall, and the side faces measure 14 x 13 mm. Now very corroded, the cut-off faces and perhaps also the top lozengiform face appear to be undecorated. The four lozengiform faces around the sides, however, have raised borders and sunken centres, and in its sunken centre one face has the remains of a niello panel with two inlaid reversed-S silver wire scrolls. There are hints that the panel was outlined with a border of silver wire. The other sunken lozenges are empty, but one detached niello panel, still retaining two S-shaped scrolls, survives. The bottom of the pinhead is damaged and some of the thin copper alloy is torn away. Inside, a hard concretion of orange sand is revealed, but there is no trace of the pin shaft. The shape of this pinhead is middle Anglo-Saxon, and the use of silver wire scrolls in niello or enamel is distinctively East Anglian. They are found on 9th-century artefact types such as strap-ends and hooked tags and help to date this pin to the 9th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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