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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy needle, Crummy Type 3. There is a groove above and below the eye on both faces. The eye is 12.40mm in length and 1.5mm in width. The shaft is broken at the end of the groove and there are chips on one side close to the break. The needle is 32.93mm long, weighs 0.93g and 2.95mm wide at its upper end and a maximum of 3.58mm wide at the centre. Dark green patina. Needles of this type date from the 3rd-4th century AD and a similar example was found at Colchester (Crummy 1983, 67, 1991, 1993). | 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: | 200
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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