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Description: | A silver gilded middle Anglo-Saxon pin head. This pin head is incomplete, the lower half survives and the upper half is missing due to an old break, its surviving length is 7mm and its width is 24mm. The pin head would have been oval-shaped when complete. The front face is decorated with silver gilding and chip-carved decoration. The chip-carved decoration shows an animal of some kind of which the neck, head, front leg and part of the body are present, it is enmeshed in interlace produced from various appendages. Around the chip-carved decoration there is a border which is decorated with circular indentations. The back face is undecorated and flat, at its base it has a rectangular-shaped indentation measuring 7mm in length and 5mm in length, this is likely to be where the top of the shaft of the pin was resting when it was attached. This pin head is similar to several from Brandon, Suffolk as shown in Webster and Backhouse (1991, p82-85), its shape is most similar to the pin pictured in No, 66b and its decoration most like that on the pin pictured in No, 66c which also has chip-carved decoration depicting various animals enmeshed in an interlace. Both of these parallel pins are late 8th or early 9th century in date.
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