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Description: | A complete copper-alloy pin, measuring 57mm in total length. The pin head is biconical, measuring 8.6mm in diameter and 6.8mm in height. The upper half of the pin head is decorated with eight grooves, radiating outwards fron the central point of the head. Although the pin head is heavy and cannot be hollow, it does appear to have been made in two halves and perhaps has a separate filling.The shaft is circular in cross-section and tapers to a sharp point. It measures 49mm in length and 1.9mm in width.The copper-alloy of this pin is of poor quality and patches of light green active corrosion can be seen on the shaft. Although pins are generally hard to date, this one may be late medieval or early post-medieval. It has similarities to the Winchester Type E (Biddle 1990, 552-60, nos. 1456-64) which have hollow globular heads made of two joined halves and filled with a hard whitish substance, although no parallel is known with this exact form of decoration.
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