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Description: | Composite pin, Crummy Type 6, probably late 15th-16th century. Solid bi-conical head made of two copper alloy hemispheres, the lower half fitted over the copper alloy shaft, and the two halves then fitted together by filling the hollow with lead based solder - some solder can be seen at a split in the join, and at the junction of the head with the shaft. The circular sectioned copper alloy wire shaft is broken off after c.13mm, and bent just before the break. Length 19.50mm, diameter of head c.10mm, diameter of shaft 1.4mm, weight 2.73g. Crummy 1988 ('Post Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-85' Colchester Archaeological Report 5) publishes two similar pins, with the same construction, one from a post medieval pit, the other from a medieval or later context, and discusses other such pins from Southampton and Sandal Castle, suggesting a date range of late 15th-16th century. Egan 2005 ('Material Culture in London in an age of transition' MoLAS Monograph 19, p.51) publishes two similar composite pins, dated between c.1480-1550, and another, probably residual, in a context dated c.1615-1700.
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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