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Description: | An example of a Roman bone pin. It is a plain shank which flares out slightly in the middle (the diameter is largest 36.46mm down the length of the shank) and then tapers to a point. It has had some slight damage which looks contemporary with the period in which it was made. The diameter measurement is 3.51 mm and this was taken where the shaft of the pin was thickest - at the top of the pin the diameter is 2.68 mm. There is a change in colour in the pin, where the top is a dark brown and the bottom is more of a cream colour.
This type of bone pin was found in deposits dating from the first to fourth centuries A.D from colchester and Crummy (1983, 20) states they are generally well made and the shaft is regular, smooth and polished. Crummy (ibid) classifies this style pin as type 1. | 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
399 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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