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Description: | A complete copper alloy hair pin. The head is biconical in shape, measuring c8mm in diameter. The top face is flat and faint longitudinal grooves can be seen radiating down from this on the top half of the pin head. Where the pin head joins the shaft there is a collar consisting of two circumferencial grooves with diagonal grooves between them. The shaft is roughly circular in cross-section (c2.5mm in diameter) and slightly swollen at the head end of the pin. If the shaft was straight it would be c89mm in length. It is bent almost at right angles, just over half of the way down (at c45mm down) and tapers to a sharp point.
This hair pin is very similar to one discovered at Colchester, which is also bent. Both of these hair pins are Roman in date (Crummy 1983, 30-31, fig 31, no 500). | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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