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Description: | A copper alloy pin dating to the second or third century AD. The pin comprises a circular section tapering stem ending in a point which is broken. Where the stem meets the head, there are two reel mouldings followed by a spool and reel. The head is a flattened sphere. The pin measures 65mm in length and the head has a diameter of 8mm. The pin is of Crummy's Type 2 [Pins with heads of bead, reel and spool motifs surmounted by a flattened sphere] and can be paralleled by several excavated from Colchester (Crummy, 1983, 28, 467-473) | 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: | 100
250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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