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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Roman hairin of Cool Group 1 sub Group E (1990, 151, fig 1 no 4). Characteristics of pins of this group are that the head is roughly biconical in shape and the shaft has a circular cross-section if the shaft is expanded part way down, as with this example, it can be further classified as Cool's sub group E, which are believed to concentrate in East Anglia.
The biconcial head of this example measures 17.5mm in diameter and 7mm in height. The shaft has a circular cross-section and is swollen from 18mm below the head, about two thirds of the way down its length. The last third of the shaft is bent at right angles and it tapers to a point. When straight the shaft would have been c70mm in length, it is bent at c44mm. The pin has a dark brown patina but there are patches of active green corrosion products.
Although this pin is most likely to be Roman in date it should be mentioned that it has been suggested, for example by Helen Geake, that there are may also be examples of middle Anglo-Saxon pins with biconical heads, sometimes with a collar and sometimes without, and with a swollen shaft. Therefore, without a context this pin cannot be attributed with total certainty to the Roman or middle Saxon period.
Other Suffolk parallels include examples from Hitcham, see SF-997D43, Market Weston, see SF-F55704, and Monks Eliegh, see SF-FB14A1. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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