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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy pin of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (AD 720 - AD 850). Length: 12.6mm; width: 6.1mm and 3.6mm thick. Weight: 0.88g. This fragment is the polyhedral head and a short stub of the shaft of a pin. It is in the form of flattened and lengthened cube with the corners forming chamfers. Each main face has a single ring-and-dot motif. The top face and each chamfer are plain and undecorated. The pin fragment has a dark green patina combined with severely corroded areas which are bright green. Due to corrosion , it is not known whether the there was a collar beneath the head so the pin could also be of Roman date rather than Middle Anglo-Saxon. However, the design is typically Middle Anglo-Saxon and there are close parallels from the Hamwic site at Southampton (Hinton 1996, p. 22, nos. 4/2 and 169/1163). Similar Middle Saxon pins have been discussed and illustrated by Geake 2001, 39-40, illustration 19.
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