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Description: | Cast copper alloy terminal, possibly a Roman pinhead. The terminal or head itself is hemispherical. It is decorated with three sets of three diagonal grooved lines set around the head, giving it a 'swirled' pattern. The integral shaft extends from beneath without a collar, or any other form of decoration. The shaft is subcircular in section. It has a very gentle bend, which is hard to determine if it is deliberate or as a result of later damage. The shaft is truncated. The original surface survives with a mid green patina and is slightly pitted, exposing a lighter green surface underneath. The break edge is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The object is 17.6mm long, of which 6.6mm is the pinhead. The pinhead is 8.48mm in diameter and the shaft is 3.88mm in diameter. The object weighs 2.60g. It does not fit in readily with Cool's classification of metal hairpins, (1990, Roman metal hairpins from southern Britain, The Archaeological Journal, 148-182) but it is entirely possible that this is the head from a Roman hairpin.
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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