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Description: | Early Medieval silver pin.Description: An incomplete silver pin, the head and a fragment of the shaft now survive. The head is polyhedral in shape, that is a solid cube with the corners faceted/cut off. The head has 13 faces, the upper face and the four main faces of the cube are lozenge-shaped and are decorated with a lozenge-shaped panel with a cross within it, there are traces of niello within the arms of the cross. Where the head joins the shaft there is a collar. The shaft is circular in section and incomplete due to an old break.It measures 18.85mm in total length, the head is 7.82mm in width and 8.22mm in height, the shaft is 2.43mm in width, it is 3.13g in weight. Discussion: Silver pins with faceted heads such as this one are generally believed to be 8th or 9th century in date (compare, for example, one from Stoke by Clare (2004 T421; SF-F82072) which has ring-and-dot decoration. This pin, however, is most similar to an example from the Bury St Edmunds area (2004 T98; SF-5BE675), which also has a geometric design in niello in the form of a St Andrew's-type cross within each lozenge-shaped face (Treasure Annual Report 2004, 86, 125 and 126) which has been dated to the 13th century by James Robinson.
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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