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Description: | A pin cast in copper alloy of probable early-medieval date (mid-late Anglo-Saxon). The pin has a polyhedral head (9.0 x 8.55 x 7.55mm), formed from a cuboid with its corners cut off; the triangles and lozenges thus formed are not regular. The four lozengiform fields round the edges are decorated with three scored diagonal lines in two rows. This is unusual as many polyhedral pins feature ring-and-dot decoration (see e.g. Hinton 1996, 22; fig. 9).Below the head the shaft is faceted, and of crudely octagonal cross-section. Each face is decorated with a row of punched circles. Below, the pin becomes square in cross-section with a 'collar' with four lozengiform faces formed through small triangular removals. There are longer triangular removals on the edges below this. The fields between feature a row of three diagonally scored lines. Below this the decoration continues on each face: two rows of three punched circles, above two scored lines, above a long row of seven punched circles. Beyond the decoration the pin becomes circular in cross-section before a break resulting in a loss and bend. The artefact now has a dark green patina.
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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