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Description: | Well-preserved copper-alloy ball-headed Tudor pin; 16th century AD date. The pin has a spherical head ornamented with twisted filigree wire in a pattern of four four-petaled flowers, each within a circle, with one embossed granule at the centre of each flower and between each circle. There are two holes in the head, where corrosion has worn through the metal, showing the hollow space inside the dome. The shaft of the pin is copper-alloy, circular in section, and has been bent.The two halves would have been hand-crafted into domes and then wires were attached to each edge, or base of each dome, to create a greater surface area for soldering. The pin shaft would first have been set into one dome, and a hole drilled in the other dome to allow the shaft to slot through, before soldering the two halves together. The pin head would then have been decorated.The head of the pin measures 13.4mm high and 13.3mm wide. The shaft of the pin in its bent state is 43.4mm long and 1.1mm thick. Over all, the object measures 54.8mm long, 13.3mm wide and weighs 2.43g.Parallel for this pin in silver can be found in the PAS database (CORN-301871).
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