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Description: | Cast copper alloy hair pin with projecting ring head (Cool Group 17, Beaded and corrugated derivative). The shank is short and tapering and has a sub circular cross section. The top of the shank bends at a sharp 90 degrees for a short distance (5.82 mm). At the end of this is attached the ring element. It is set at a right angles to the shorter section of the shaft, projecting upwards in the same plane as the main part of the shank. The ring is cast as one with the shank, the end of which projects forward through the base of the ring forming a flattened, sub-circular knop. The ring is D-sectioned and slightly mis-shapen. The front is decorated for much of its circumference with lateral incised grooves. At either side of the knop where the ring joins the shaft, there is a ridge, marking the end of the incised lines, and a short stretch of undecorated surface. The back of the ring is flat and undecorated. This pin is very similar to H. Cool, 1990, page 165 - 166, Nos. 4 and 10, but the decoration is somewhat more simplified and less pronounced. Cool suggests that these are probably late Roman in date (3rd to 4th centuries) and that because of their relatively short length they were most likely used as hair pins (ibid, p 165).
Further dimensions:
Maximum shank diameter 3.27 mm. Shank length 65.08 mm. Ring diameter 11.39 mm | 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: | Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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