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Description: | A copper alloy hair pin fragment of probable Roman date. It consists of part of the pin shaft with a circular section, and the head which is cone-shaped and decorated with criss-cross incised line decoration. There are five more lines of decoration around the shaft. The head is hollow and there are traces of a whitish substance within, which may be the remains of a paste to fix a stone or glass within the setting. The pin fragment measures 32.35mm in length and the shaft is 2.9mm in diameter. The pin head is 6.23mm in diameter, and the object weighs 1.82g.
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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