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Description: | A cast copper alloy pin. The pin is incomplete, only the head remains. The pin head is circular in section, but varies in diameter due to moulded decoration. The decoration consists of a hemp-sphere at the terminal, with three cordons of various diameters below. The shank is integral to the base of the lower cordon and is immediately broken. This break is probably recent as it is the only corroded area, otherwise the pin has a well developed green/brown coloured patina. The head measures 8.33mm diameter, and the object is 16.81mm long. It weighs 2.7g. The object is a cast copper alloy pin, probably a Roman hair pin. The pin is similar to No. 8 of Group 8 in Cools' typology (1990 'Roman Metal Hair Pins from Southern Britain' Archaeological Journal Volume 147, p. 148-182). However the recorded example does not have the multi hemispheres, instead it only has one. Cool comments only one of these pins were found in a dated context and that was in Colchester, dating to the late 1st to 2nd century.
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