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Description: | Nineteen late medieval - early post medieval copper alloy pins (15th - 16th century). All of these pins are constructed from drawn wire with a wound wire head.Egan & Forsyth (1997:222) write, "Pins are recovered in abundance from almost all sites yielding 15th and 16th century material. They were indispensably and vast quantities were used in England for fastening clothing and paper and for sewing."Dimensions of the longest: diameter of head: 3.27mm; length: 37mm; weight: 0.25g. Reference: Egan, G. and Forsyth, H. 1997. Wound Wire and Silver Gilt. In Gaimster, D. & Stamper, P. 1997. The Age of Transition. The Archaeology of English Culture 1400-1600. Society Medieval Archaeology Monograph 15 (Oxbow Monograph Series 98) Oxbow, Oxford.
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