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Description: | Roman cast copper-alloy hairpin, early 2nd to 3rd century. This hairpin is a Crummy Type 2: Pins with heads of bead, reel and spool motifs surmounted by a flattened sphere. This particular hairpin has a flattened sphere on top followed by a spool, a bead, a reel and then the circular sectioned shaft (tip missing). It has a dark green patina with abraded sections which are a mid green, and the break edges are worn. It measures 61.42mm long in total (the head measuring 16.04mm), the shaft is 2.62mm wide, the head is 7.5mm wide and the whole pin weighs 4.6g. Crummy, N. 1983. The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, pages 28-29, figure 27, ref. 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: | 100
299 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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