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Description: | A fragment of Middle Early-Medieval (700-800) gilded copper alloy disc-headed pin from a linked-pin set, consisting of roughly a quarter. It measures 24.82x23.58x1.67mm (original diameter c.37mm) and weighs 2.95g.Now a little bent, the object is flat and undecorated to the reverse, while the other side has chip-carved decoration in the form of running spirals around a central component which is now missing (a plain flat area 10.55mm diameter remains at the centre with a 2.73mm diameter rivet hole). A 4.7mm wide plain edge flanks the decoration on the other side, and this retains a smaller rivet hole 0.92mm in diameter. There would have been another of these on the other side and both would have attached to 'links'.Three spirals remain, one of which is a complete S on its side, with a branch from one end leading into the third spiral. Gilding survives in the grooves.Sets of two- or three-linked pins were fashionable in the late eighth century. The most spectacular example is the linked triple pin set from the river Witham, in Lincolnshire (see L. Webster and J Backhouse The Making of England, London 1991, no. 184), but plainer pieces are also well known. The best published parallel is the one from Kegworth, Leicestershire, which is Plate IIIa in Wilson's 1964 British Museum Catalogue (Kevin Leahy pers. comm.) This is the second component of a linked pin set to be recorded from Wiltshire, more commonly found in eastern and north-eastern parts of the UK; see WILT-B11376 from the Chippenham area.
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