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Description: | An incomplete and very worn copper-alloy pin/nail head with a fragment of shaft surviving, measuring 18.2mm in total surviving length. The head is now globular and roughly cirular in shape measuring 12mm in diameter. It is unclear if it was originally circular in shape as the side do look quite angular, it may therefore have originally have been cuboid in shape with the corners of the cube cut off, it is now almost impossible to tell due to the extreme wear on the head. The base of the head appears to taper towards the shaft and there may even be a faint trace of a circumferencial collar, again wear makes this impossible to be certain about. The fragment of shaft is circular in cross-section, measuring 3.6mm in width. This possible pin or nail could be Roman in date, especially if it was originally globular in shape, and did not have a collar, similar globular nails, believed to be furniture nails have been discovered at Colchester (Crummy 1983). However, if the head was originally cuboid with the corners cut off and did have a collar it is more likely to be middle Anglo-Saxon in date. Due to the extreme wear and damage this object has sustained it is impossible to be certain about either identification. | 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: | 43
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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