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Description: | A Middle Early-Medieval (700-800) copper alloy silvered lozenge-shaped object, possibly a link from a two- or three-linked pin set. It has a loop at either end. Measures 50.73x16.81x1.89mm and weighs 4.61g.The lozenge shape is defined by a thickened edge. The area between has been chip-carved to show two entwined spirals, both emerging from a central point. Both runs into a smaller spiral either side of the central one, which in turn develops into a pointed lobe inside either end of the lozenge.Each loop is pierced (c.1.2mm diameter) and one has the remains of an iron rivet in situ. In the centre of the face, at the centre of the spiral, is another piercing c.1mm diameter.The metal is rather worn and only traces of the silvering survive. There is iron staining around the rivet and the central hole on both faces.Sets of two- or three-linked pins were fashionable in the late eighth century. The most spectacular example is the linked triple pin set from the river Witham, in Lincolnshire (see L. Webster and J Backhouse The Making of England, London 1991, no. 184), but plainer pieces are also well known. Kevin Leahy, National Finds Adviser, comments 'The best published parallel is the one from Kegworth, Leicestershire, which is Plate IIIa in Wilson's 1964 British Museum Catalogue. However having said that I would be cautious about saying that this was a link from a pin-set. I am worried by the iron staining which suggests that it had been nailed to something. I would also have liked to see some wear in the holes at the ends. The decoration however is fine for the eighth century'.
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