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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Middle Early-Medieval pin, consisting of a biconical head and part of the shaft (c.10mm). The break is very recent and sharp, showing the bright pinky-brassy colour of the metal beneath the dark green shiny patina. It appears to be at a bend in the shaft.
The top of the boconical head is rather squatter than the underside and is slightly flattened with a central punched ring-and-dot surrounded by five others. The bottom half of the pin head is decorated with eight punched ring-and-dots in a seeming haphazard manner, but two ring-and-dots are placed vertically on the opposite side to another two placed vertically, and between these two pairs on the upper register (nearest the middle of the pin) are another two.
The collar is 3.7mm in diameter. The incomplete length of the pin is 21.2mm and it weighs 3.45g. The diameter of the head is 9.7mm and it stands 10.6mm high.
It is thought these pins may possibly be Roman in date, but a Middle-Saxon date is far more likely. | 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: | 720
850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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