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Description: | Head and top of shaft from a pin. The head is made from copper alloy. It is in the form of a cuboid measuring 7 mm square in cross-section and 10 mm long, with the corners cut off. On three of the four main lozenge-shaped faces are five dots drilled in a quincunx and filled with a white material which may possibly be a decayed inlay. On the fourth main face is a pierced D-shaped lug to take a linking chain or cord. All the other faces are undecorated. From the base of the head the shaft emerges; this is made of iron, and is circular in cross-section measuring c. 3 mm in diameter. Only a short stump of the shaft survives; corrosion from the iron has spread staining over much of the head. The shape of the head dates the pin to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (8th or 9th century AD) but the loop, implying that it was part of a linked set, perhaps argues for a date in the first half of this period. A composite copper-alloy/iron construction is unusual. | 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: | 700
800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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