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Description: | An incomplete medieval copper-alloy pin from an annular buckle of Margeson's disc-on-tongue (or disc-on-pin) type, consisting of an integral rounded sub-lozengiform plate occupying most of the central section of the pin, the front of which has a border groove. The plate also has four large bi-conical dome-headed decorative rivets through it, which are evenly spaced; there is no fifth central rivet, although this is frequently found on other examples. Projecting either end of the plate are two fragmentary shanks, probably one originally a loop and the other a tapering shank. The pin measures 16.2mm in length and 16.3mm in width across the plate. There are traces of gilding.
It is uncertain how these enigmatic objects would have functioned as pins. Other examples include two from Norfolk, NMS-892006 from Bracon Ash and NMS-CD35B2 from Hoe. There is also one illustrated from Middle Harling, Norfolk (mis-identified as a hooked tag) (EAA 74 fig.39, no.490). Suffolk examples include SF-7EC955, from Waldringfield, SF-A79EA4, from Great Barton and SF-3E0013, from Isleham. | 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: | 1400
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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