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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin, possibly a brooch pin or a cosmetic pick of Early-Medieval date. It is missing the top of the suspension loop due to old breaks. The pin is formed from a single piece of copper-alloy that is hammered or rolled to create a cylindrical shaft that tapers to a sharp point and has a vertical seam on one side. At the top the pin expands to a flattened head that is sub-triangular in form and missing its top due to old breaks. This has an incomplete central circular aperture. The entire object measures 49.38mm in length, 7.44mm in width at head, 3.06mm in diameter at shaft, 1.27mm in thickness at head, and weighs 1.75g.This is probably an Early-Medieval brooch pin or cosmetic pick similar to examples published from Oxford (MacGregor and Bolick, 1993: pp. 183-189, 216-220, especially nos. 31.23-31.31, 37.8, 37.11-15). The difficulties in separating the two forms of object noted by MacGregor and Bolick who indicate that it is often only through association with other objects or position in graves that precise function can be attributed (MacGregor and Bolick, 1993: pp. 183). The current object may plausibly have had either function and probably dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, c.400-720 AD if not a little later.
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