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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Iron Age linch pin terminal, which is the foot of the pin. The socketed part of the foot is broken, leaving only a shallow concave area. This would have extended into a larger socket which would have held the iron pin, which has long since corroded away. The exterior of the socket tapers to the terminal, where it curves forward and expands into a flat circular plate. The flat surface is decorated with a central recessed cell for enamel, with two concentric rings recessed for enamel round it. These are divided by bands of raised metal. No traces of the enamel survive. Linch pin terminals date to the late Iron Age period, circa 100BC to 50AD. Sometimes this shaped terminal of a composite linch pin is known as 'hoof' type terminal (Hutcheson, N. 2004 Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, landscape and society B.A.R. 361 p. 109). Hutcheson illustrates similar examples, No. 46, and dates these to circa 100BC to circa 100AD. Some Yorkshire parallels can be seen in Stead, p44-6. These examples were found in cemetery contexts in East Yorkshire. See also YORYM-095350, LANCUM-E78098, YORYM-B3FDA2, WAW-CEE943, SF-AC9AD2 and for a replica COOK-527973. There are less than 100 linch pins recorded on the PAS database at the time of writing.
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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LINCH PIN
Cast copper-alloy terminal (foot) from…
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