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Description: | Silver-gilt dress-pin, consisting of two parts; a gilded spherical head and a short section of ungilded shank. The diameter of the head is 12mm and with the broken shank has a total length of 22.5mm. It weighs 2.64grams. The head of the pin would have been made in two parts and soldered together, therefore hollow-cast. A plain band measuring 1.5mm in width spans the circumference. Each hemisphere is decorated with 4 filigree circles each with a filigree quatrefoil in the centre. Each with a central raised knop, these look like flowers. A larger raised knop crowns the top of the pin head and there are three knops between each of the circles and 4 encircling where the shank joins the pin head and around the large knop. Only 8mm remains of the shank, which is circular in section and slightly bent. Although similar to Anglo-Saxon examples, this type of dress-pin is likely to be of late medieval/early post medieval date and is probably early 16th century. Similar to finds SF-866641 and SF-5BCC43, the dress-pin will be examined under the Treasure Act at the British Museum. Ref. Allan, J. and Timms, S., 1996, Treasures of Devon, Devon Books, p. 40-41. Margeson, S., 1993, Norwich Households, East Anglian Archaeology 58, p.10 | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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