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Description: | Mid Saxon Pin with roughly triangular flat head, the form of which is reminiscent of many hooked tags. The top edge is rounded between two lobes and there is a triangular cut-out on the upper part of the sides. Of six ring-and-dots, one has been roughly broken through. Two transverse incised grooves immediately below the junction of head and shank take the place of a collar. The shank, the lower two -thirds of the shank are bent through c.130ยบ, is of circular or sub-circular section except for the final 20mm where it is square, the change being quite abrupt. A seam running the full length of the shank is evidence that it was made by the folding process (Morton and Oddy in Hinton Hamwic 1996, 79). The head was almost certainly formed out of the same piece of metal by hammering out, as is evidenced by the seam that can seen to reach the left-hand side of the front face just above the level of the top of the lowest ring-and-dot. An elongated rectangular impression above this is probably a hammer-mark. Head width 11mm, height / length 16mm. Total length c.70mm. 8th - 9th century.
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