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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy pin of probable Late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) or Early Medieval date (c. AD 1000 - c. AD 1200). Length: 30.0mm; diameter of head: 9.4mm. Weight: 3.01g.The pin has a bi-conical head and a tapering shaft which has an old abraded break. At the apex of the head there is a small circular protrusion. The underside of the head is decorated with five equally spaced vertical lines of four small circular depressions. The top of each of these lines, immediately beneath the upper part of the head, is joined by an incurving groove. The shank has circumferential moulded decoration and from the top to the break is formed thus:Four ribs/reel/four ribs/baluster/four ribs/reel/four ribs/baluster.This pin has an overall mid green patina and is also pitted in several places due to corrosion.This pin is comparable to others recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: SUR-599492, HAMP-29C7B6 and WILT-DCC2C1. Comparisons can also be made with two copper alloy pins in the Ashmolean Museum Collections (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 183, refs. 31.1 and 31.2).
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