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Description: | Silver pin, with a gilded spherical head ornamented with twisted filigree wire in a pattern of four four-petaled flowers, each within a circle, with one embossed granule at the centre of each flower and between each circle. The two halves of the sphere have been broken apart in antiquity and have both been crushed over time. The top half retains the pin shaft, and the bottom half of the sphere is detached and has several fragments missing. The shaft of the pin is silver and ungilded and circular in section. The two halves would have been hand-crafted into domes and then wires were attached to each edge, or base of each dome, to create a greater surface area for soldering. The pin shaft would first have been set into one dome, and a hole drilled in the other dome to allow the shaft to slot through, before soldering the two halves together. The pin head would then have been decorated and mercury-gilded. Each dome is about 1.25 mm thick and about 6.25 mm in depth, from its base, at the soldering edge, to its pinnacle; the diameter of each dome at the soldering edge is about 14.25 mm. The shaft of the pin is incomplete as it is only 29.8 mm long; the broken end of the shaft, the last 5 mm of its surviving length, has been torn so that only half of it remains in section. This pin dates to the 16th century. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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