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Description: | A copper alloy disc which is probably the head of an Early Medieval disc headed pin and which is probably part of a linked pin set. The disc head has a short projection from one side which has three steps and which may indicate where the shaft was attached. This is now missing. The surviving part of the pin is 42.7mm long, 34.9mm wide and 2.28mm thick. Riveted into the centre is a stud with a circular recess for a decorative setting. There is a worn hole near the rim quarter of the way round the edge from the projection. The hole is worn on the outer edge. The area on the opposite edge is damaged, but there appears to have been a hole there too originally. The surviving hole has been strengthened by the addition of a small disc of metal on the reverse. The reverse is plain. The front of the disc is decorated with animal and interlace designs with two animal heads in each quarter. Traces of gilding survive round the centre. The metal has a glossy brown patina. The style of the decoration suggests a late eighth or ninth century date (Webster and Backhouse, 1991, The Making of England, Fig 66c: Leahy 2007, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Fig 51,1:47,3). Similar pins on the database include NLM-028751 and SUR-CFE0C7.
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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