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Description: | Silver dress pin with a solid spherical head cast with swirling lines; small collar where the head joins the shaft. The shaft is incomplete. Judging from comparable finds in base metal excavated at Southampton, this is an Anglo-Saxon pin of 8th or 9th-century date (Hinton 1996, type Ab, fig. 7, pp. 18-19). The lower part of the shaft is missing, but it would probably have had the typical expanded or `hipped' form. Silver rivets with a similar `wrythen-decorated' ornamental head were used on a runic scabbard mount recovered from the Thames and independently dated to the same period (Wilson 1964, no. 45, pp. 152-3, plate).Dimensions and metal content Length 24mm; weight 11g. X-ray fluorescence analysis at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 97 per cent. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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