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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy pin of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 720-c. 850).The pin head is sub-spherical in form with fourteen spiralling grooves on the side. At the apex there are two grooves forming a cross. Immediately below the head is a small collar dividing the head from the shaft. The shaft is circular in cross-section and beneath the collar it has a diameter of 1.6mm. It tapers towards the break where the diameter is 1.0mm.Length: 23.6mm; diameter of head: 6.3mm; weight: 1.31g.This pin has a mid-green patina, lost in places due to corrosion. The break is old.A similar pin with spiralling grooves and a cross at the apex has been recorded from Nettleton parish, Lincolnshire. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: NLM2800.Similar examples with spiralling grooved heads and collars from Hamwic (Southampton) have been published (Hinton 1996: 16-17, refs: Ab2ii and Ab2iii).
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