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Description: | 8th-9th Century. Early Medieval. Copper alloy, cast, broken and damaged Anglo-Saxon dress pin with large size polyhedral head. Length 34.2mm, Width 9.7mm, Thickness 7.7mm, Weight 4.5g. Polyhedral faceted head with multiple ring and dot moulded decoration including three or four symmetrically arranged ring and dot on the larger surfaces and single ring and dot on the smaller chamfered edges. Crudely inscribed cross on an otherwise plain upper square shaped surface. Relatively small plain collar and broken and bent shaft of circular cross-section. Attractive dark green patina - except where bent. Ref: Detector Finds 3, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing, 1997, page 31-33 ref.17,19 and Saxon and Viking Artefacts, Nigel Mills, Greenlight Publishing 2001 page 57 ref. AS125. | 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: | 701
899 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geoff Burr | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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