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Description: | A copper alloy globular headed pin. Overall the pin is 60mm between the head and the end, but if straightened out would be approx 110mm long. The head is a fairly uniform globe in shape, approx 9mm in diameter, but is slightly flattened on 2 opposing sides to form 2 opposing faces, where the head in 8mm wide. There is no collar on the shaft below the head. The shaft itself is square in section, approx 2.8mm thick. One face has a small groove running along it from 4mm below the head to 2.6mm from the end. The end of the shaft is squared off not pointed and appears original not broken off. The shaft is decorated with a punched ring and dot design all along its length which runs down the centre of 3 faces, and is displaced to one side on the face with the groove.The shaft has 3 significant bends in it, one of nearly 90 degrees about halfway along, one of approx 45 degrees between the head and the main bend, and one of approx 30 degrees between the main bend and the end. These three bends are all in different planes. The shaft is also twisted around its long axis by nearly a full rotation. This twist apppears to have been in 2 events however, each of just under a half rotation, one between the central bend and the lower bend, and the other between the lower bend and the end. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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