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Description: | A copper-alloy pin with a large globular head. The head is 11 mm in diameter. The shaft of the pin is either broken or very short, at 6 mm in length. The shaft is initially circular in profile but becomes sub rectangular at the break/end. The shaft is also swollen at this point. Swollen shafts are known from Anglo-Saxon and Roman pins, although this does not have the collar that is a common feature of Anglo-saxon pins so it is perhaps more likely to be Roman. The head of the pin is actually very similar to a Roman example given by Crummy (1983, page 115; fig 2995), although the shaft is somewhat different. Crummy suggests that such examples are from furniture upholstery. If this is the case with this example then it is perhaps likely that the short shaft does not represent a break and that it was designed in such a way for attachment purposes.
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