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Description: | Almost complete copper alloy Roman pin of Cool group 3. The head of this pin is ornate. It is formed from an upper globular finial knob with a wasted neck and small collar, which is 9.12mm long, and a square with bulging sides and a flared collar to top and bottom, which is 7.9mm high and 5.4mm wide. Between these two decorative features is a curved three dimensional column that is oval in profile, which is 12.14mm long. The pin shaft extends from the base of the square base and is circular in section. It extends for 66.66mm, gradually tapering. The end of the shaft is blunt, suggesting the tip may be missing. The pin is very abraded and the original surface is now missing. It has a light green, ?chalky? patina, with some evidence of brown corrosion products on the pinhead. The pin has an over all length of 95.78mm and weighs 5.88g. Pins of this type date from c75-300AD.See Cool, 1990, Roman metal hairpins from southern Britain, figure 3, number 9 for a close parallel. | 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: | 75
300 | 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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