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Description: | A cast copper alloy pin of Roman date. The pin has a cubic head, with its four side facets bearing single ring motifs, and its upper face ornamented with a simple saltire. The shank does not bear a true collar, but there is a suggestion of a thin horizontal band just below the base of the head. Pins with similarly faceted cuboid heads are known in copper alloy, silver, jet, and bone/antler from Romano-British sites such as Colchester, where they are found in late 3rd and 4th-century contexts. One might also note the presence of the faceted cuboid in other forms of late Roman jewellery (Crummy 1983: 23, 27, 29).The pinhead has a width of 6.7mm, and the shank a diameter of 2.0mm. The entire pin is 21.4mm long, and weighs 2.5g.
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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