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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin of middle Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing most of the shaft due to old breaks. The head is polyhedral in form (a cuboid with the corners cut off), rectangular in section and has thirteen faces. The faces are worn and undecorated, and there is a raised transverse collar at the join of head and shaft. Beneath the collar the shaft itself is circular in section and begins to taper before terminating in old breaks. This entire object measures 28.97mm in length, 7.30mm in width at head, 7.07mm in thickness at head, 2.34mm in diameter at shaft, and weighs 3.54g.Similar pins, typically with ring-and-dot decorative motifs, are noted from Suffolk (West, 1998: no. 96.12; see also SF-E5B293, SF-35C798) and indicate a probable middle Anglo-Saxon date range in the 8th-9th centuries AD for the current example.
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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