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Description: | A complete but bent copper-alloy Roman hairpin of Cool Group 1 sub-group E (Cool, 1990, 151-152, fig 1, no 1-6). This Group have knob heads and sub-group E have an expansion of the shaft part of the way down. They show a concentration in East Anglia, where over half of the examples have been found.
This example has an onion shaped head, with a globular base and pointed tip, and an expansion which starts one quarter of the way down the shaft and lasts for two quarters of its lenght. The shaft has a circular cross-section and tapers to a rounded point, it is bent before and after the expansion due to damage. This pin measures 61.87mm in length and the head is 8.78mm in width and the shaft 4.52mm in width across the expansion and 1.97mm in width elsewhere. | 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: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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