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Description: | Early Medieval cast copper alloy ball-headed pin head, 8th-9th century. Solid sub-spherical head decorated with five spherical bosses (one at the top and four equally-spaced around the middle); wide and thick bun-spaped collar; pin shaft broken off (scar left by shaft c.3mm diameter). Mid brown-green patina. Length 16.7mm, diameter of head (without bosses) 9.1mm, maximum width of head (including bosses) 14.4mm, diameter of collar 5.8mm-6.0mm, thickness of collar 2.3mm, weight 4.77g.There appear to be just two other Saxon pin heads of this solid ball-headed type on the PAS database, both from Norfolk - NMS-EEECD5 (Colney) & NMS-3DDAA3 (Great Dunham).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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