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Description: | Fragment of silver head-dress pin, rectangular in section and decorated on all four faces. The fragment has an old break at the top, across a perforation; from portrait evidence, such perforations were used to suspend a bead or pendant. At the bottom, the break is more complicated and may have involved one or more deliberate cuts. At the upper break, the pin has a deep and narrow section to accommodate the perforation, which is at right angles to the plane of the rest of the pin. The side faces below the perforation are decorated with sketchy oblique grooves, and there are longitudinal grooves on the front and rear faces. Below, the front and rear are in the shape of a four-petalled flower, with ridges between the petals, a central boss, and radiating grooves on the petals. There is a moulding above and below the flower. The side faces continue the ridges between the petals. Below this is the usual rectangular perforation, with decoration of five tiny mouldings around all four faces towards the top and two slightly larger mouldings at the bottom. Next comes a scrolly openwork trefoil, with two lobes at the top with internal scrolls and one at the bottom with external scrolls. Then there is a row of three circles punched on both front and rear, with a double groove above and below encircling all four faces. Then comes the complex break; the pin appears to have a split along the long axis of its section, causing an L-shaped break. The face with more surviving has sketchy longitudinal grooves and runs down to what appears to be a neat cut at a slight angle. The whole of the pin, although just over 2 mm thick, has a slight but uneven curve. These head-dress pins are a Netherlands fashion from the first quarter of the 17th century (see Margeson 1993, p. 8-9).
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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