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Description: | Description: Incomplete silver headdress pin or bodkin. Rectangular sectioned, broken across a perforation at one end and tapering very slightly towards a break at the other end. Now bent twice and badly cracked across one bend. The bodkin is decorated alike with engraving on both faces with (from just below the perforation) two transverse lines, a trifoliate design similar to a tulip, two transverse lines, three pairs of parallel lines with short dashes to either side forming a zigzag, an elongated V with short angled dashed within. On one face the decoration continues with the inscription * I * M * before break. A similar examples is illustrated in Margeson (1993, 9, pl.III).Date: 17th century.
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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