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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Roman hairpin now worn and corroded probably 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 12mm in diameter and 6mm in height. The shaft has a circular cross-section and is swollen from 13mm below the head, for the middle third of its length. The last third of the shaft is slightly bent and it tapers to a point. The shaft measures 62mm in length.
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 Pakenham, see SF-4A3505, 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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