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Description: | A probable copper-alloy pin, likely to have been used in a female's hair, although possibly for securement of clothing. The pin appears not to be complete with a portion of the lower shaft missing. Wear at the end of the remains of the shaft suggests that the break was in antiquity. The pin has a knopped head. It then tapers before flaring to two bulbed collars. Although the distance between the collars and the head seems a little unusually in this example (8 mm), it nonetheless seems likely that this artefact is in fact Roman. Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy (29, 467-474). | 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 | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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