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Description: | Roman copper alloy pinThe pin is incomplete, missing the tip (with a surviving and distorted length of 80.7mm and a weight of 6.6g) and is of the 'Ibex-headed' type. The open head is circular (with an external diameter of 14.1mm, an internal diameter of 9.6mm and a thickness of 3-5mm). The ring is flat on the rear and the interior and convex on the outside face, which is decorated with diagonal grooves, meeting at the apex. Each side of the base is a raised lentoid moulding, with a central groove. At the base is the characteristic raised circular knop (of 3.8mm diameter, which gives the head an overall depth of 10.8mm). The pin head is stepped to the shaft (with a depth of 5.6mm), where the shaft is of sub-rectangular section, with convex front and rear sides (3.7mm wide and 4.3mm thick) and gradually becomes circular sectioned, tapering towards the tip (with a diameter at the break of 2.5mm). The surface has a pale green to brown patina and the detail is unworn.'Ibex-headed' type pins are thought to have begun during the late Iron Age and continued through the Romano-British period and possibly into the Early Medieval period as evidenced by their occurrence in an Anglo-Saxon grave at Duston (Fowler, 1963, p 123) . The lentoid mouldings on this example would seem to suggest a Roman period date. Fowler (ibid.) catalogues 13 examples from across Britain and Ireland. A close parallel is recorded by Hattatt (1989, p 442, no. 92) from Suffolk, which he sees as of 4th century date.
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