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Description: | Possibly a cast cu-alloy pin head dating from the early Roman period, i.e. the 2nd century. The pin head is decorated with two very small reels and topped by a flattened sphere. Crummy writes: "No close parallels exist between any two pins of this group. In section the heads may be circular and rectangular. Pins with heads combining several motifs are quite common though none are exactly similar to this type. Bead-and-reel-headed bone pins, Type 6, which date from c. AD200, appear to be uninfluenced by Type 2 metal pins which seem to have been introduced early in the 2nd century, and perhaps have gone out of production in the 3rd century." (Crummy 1983, 28)
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