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Description: | A small silver dress pin with bent wire shaft and near-spherical head comprising two hemispheres, each with applied filigree roundels containing bosses, gilded, with knop on top. This is a small example of a typical Tudor 'ball-headed' dress pin, English 16th century, of which examples are regularly reported through the Treasure Act; see for example a pin from Mathern, Monmouthshire, see Treasure Annual Report 1998-9, no. 228.
The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
(Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections, Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum). | 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: | 1500
1599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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