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Description: | Complete bone pin, 61 mm long, made from a flat slab of bone roughly 3 mm thick. The shaft has been whittled down to a generally circular cross-section and the head has been left flat. The head is basically rectangular, 16 mm long and 14 mm wide, and three of the edges each have three notches cut into them giving a crenellated appearance. The fourth edge is filled by the top of the shaft. There is no decoration on the head. The shaft has an angular swelling close to the sharp point.The pin weighs 1.68g.
There are facets on the shaft showing that it has been made by whittling with a blade, rather than turning on a lathe. There are also filemarks on both the shaft and the head. Pins such as these are often found with ring-and-dot decoration (e.g. at Castle Acre, Archaeological Journal vol. 139 (1982), p. 251-2, nos. 42-43) and with perforated heads. They appear to date to the late eleventh or early twelfth century and may be dress-pins or hair-pins. 1066-1150 AD. | 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: | 1066
1150 | 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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