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Description: | Incomplete Late Roman/ Early Early-Medieval copper alloy gilt pin, consisting of the head and part of the shaft. Its incomplete length is 27.2mm and it weighs 11.79g.The head is biconical, with one side extending into the shank (6.9mm in diameter). The head measures 14.7x14.9mm and from the raised central point, four equidistant bands 1.7mm wide (and flanked either side by a shallow groove) radiate. Gilding survives on each band, below a white-coloured concretion.The underside of the head has further traces of gilding besides more white concretion and additional copper alloy (bright bluey green) concretion. This gilding is in the form of two c.3mm wide bands divided by a groove and two narrow ribs. Below, on the shank, are three narrow ribs with grooves between, above another gilded band, above two narrow ribs. Below this the shank bulges and is 9.5mm diameter and 5.8mm high. Around the centre is a narrow rib created by a narrow groove on either side.The shank extends 4.6mm beyond this, to an old break covered with bronze concretion. Gilding is still visible as well as several narrow ribs and grooves.SUR-599492, A complete though less well-preserved example, has recently been found in Greywell, Hampshire. This example is gilded and the cross on the dome has niello inlay. Another similar find IOW-83B9C5 from the Isle of Wight - though without gilding or niello inlay, and less pronounced bulging on the shank - has been identified by Barry Ager at the British Museum as being a "simpler version of the type represented by a pin with a biconical head from Gilton, Kent (C. Roach Smith, 1852, Collectanea Antiqua, 2, pl. 37, 3) which originated in Gaul at the end of the Roman period, where more elaborate pins with biconical or mushroom-shaped heads date to the late 4th and 5th centuries (H.W. Böhme, 1974, Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire, Munich, pp. 35-39). The examples from Anglo-Saxon contexts seem likely to be 5th-century imports". A further published example is known from the Anglo Saxon cemetery at Alton, Hampshire, Vera Evison 1988 (Hampshire Field Club), page 99 fig.32 Grave 35 no.4. Additional PAS recorded similar finds are SUSS-2DC102 and HAMP-29C7B6.
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