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Description: | Complete pin. The head is globular but slightly facetted, with each facet decorated with a ring-and-dot. There is one on the top, five around the top half, six around the ?equator?, and four around the lower half. Below is a small flat-topped collar, then a circular-section shaft which is now bent into a series of small wiggles. There is no stress to the metal and the bending could have taken place in antiquity. At about two-thirds of the way down the shaft there is a very slight step outwards before the shaft tapers again to the point. This ?hipping? was to keep the pin secure in the hair or clothing. Total original length c. 75 mm, diameter of head 9 mm. (TF 7148 2374). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 650
850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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