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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin of Roman date. Only the head and a short section of the shaft survive intact, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. The head is biconical in form with pointed top and slight circumferential ridge. At the base it has a slight raised collar beneath which extends the incomplete shaft. Ths is cylindrical in form and terminates in old breaks just below the head. The object measures 16.17mm in total length, 11.36mm in diameter (at head; 2.39mm at shaft) and weighs 4.71g.This pin finds similarities with Cool's Group 1 and 2 pins (Cool, 1990: pp. 151-154). It dates to the Roman period, c.43-410 AD.
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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