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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin of probable middle Anglo-Saxon date. It has a flattened, biconical head that is decorated on the upper surface with a deeply incised cross. At the base of the head is a transverse collar beneath which extends the shaft. This is cylindrical in form, curved to an angle of 90 degrees and begins to swell before terminating in old breaks. This pin measures 35.60mm in current (bent) length, 8.22mm in diameter at head, 2.40mm in diameter at shaft, and weighs 3.49g.Although sharing some similarities with Roman pins, the presence of a collar at junction between head and shaft, as well as a swollen shaft towards the tip of the pin, sugests a middle Anglo-Saxon date for the current example. Similar parallels are noted from Suffolk, although lack the incised decoration on the head (e.g. West, 1998: no. 96.8; SF-E5C4E3) and indicate a possible 8th-9th century AD date.
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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