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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy pin, probably Roman. The pin head is polyhedral (i.e. cuboid with the corners cut off). Each of the four main faces is decorated with a single ring and dot motif. Beneath the head there are three moulded horizontal collars. Beneath these the shaft of the pin is plain for 7.02mm, before there are a further three moulded collars as above. The shaft then continues, appearing to taper, but only for 4.48mm before the pin is truncated. The pin has an over all surviving length of 29.66mm, of which 10.76mm is the faceted head. The head is 6.08mm wide and the shaft is 4.2mm wide. The fragment weighs 3.10g. Though there are no direct examples in Cool, 1990, Roman metal hair pins from southern Britain, The Archaeological Journal volume 147, it is likely to fit within Cool?s group 15 of faceted head pins dating to the late third and fourth centuries. Cool comments that the pins are normally plain and that ring and dot is normally seen on Early Medieval pins, but acknowledges that some Roman pins do occasionally have ring and dot decoration, such as one from Colchester (Crummy, 1983, The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9, number 490). Given the moulded decoration on the shaft, it is suggested that this is one of those occasional decorated Roman examples. | 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: | 275
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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