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Description: | Mid-Late Saxon copper alloy gilt ball-headed pin (diameter 9mm, excluding pellets), worn, corroded and broken, solid collared head with five applied pellet bosses. Each boss may once have been set within spiral filigree wire, although no trace survives. The fragment of shaft (19mm) is bent and has a deep irregular vertical break, lower part missing. This example appears to relate to hollow ball-headed pins. These have spiral wire decoration and bosses, often set with glass or garnets, and appear belong to the 8th or possibly 9th-century (Margeson (1995) Ball-Headed Pins: A Typological Puzzle, 161-5 in A. Longcroft and R. Joby (eds.)).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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