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Description: | Cast copper alloy Iron Age/ Roman linch pin terminal, which is the foot of the pin., c.100BC- 100 AD in date.The foot has a deep circular socket, inside a cylindrical, slightly tapering shaft. This aperture would have held the iron pin, which has long since corroded away. Traces of this iron pin can be seen in the socket. At the socket is a moulded collar consisting of a concave band running the circumference of the The exterior of the shaft tapers down to the opposite terminal, to where it flares into a pointed oval head plate. The reverse of the head has a central raised ridge, the front is flat and is decorated in relief with the panels infilled with enamel, most of which is now missing. The decoration is assymetrical with a tear-drop shape at the lower terminal, and a circle at the top end of the plate. The tear-drop has a triangle taken from the end, and a circle with with a dot in the centre above at the rounded end. This dot would have been infilled with enamel. The circle has the same dot at the lower edge, nearest the tear-drop, this time some red enamel remains. The circle then has a small open triangle above. It is likely the field outside the circle and tear-drop would have been filled with enamel also but none remains.
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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