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Description: | The object is probably a pin lock, made from cast copper alloy. In length it is 15.9mm. The circular base is 24.5mm diameter. It weighs 18.31g.
The lower portion of the pin is a sub-conical shape. The base of the conical has a concave surface with a central conical shaped knop. The exterior surface of the conical body has a shallow ridge around the base as decoration.
The tip of the conical is now a broken edge, the break is not recent. If this object was a lock pin we would expect to see the platform of a rectangular section rod, but this is not clear.
Most of the surface is abaded and in poor condition.
Lock pin date to the Roman period. Crummy in the Colchester Reports illustrates two lock pins, No. 4143 is similar to the recorded example. The Colchester examples date from the mid 1st to 3rd centuries. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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