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Description: | An incomplete worked bone hair pin, of broad Roman dating (1st to 4th Centuries AD).Approximately 75% of the pin is present, consisting only of the shaft of the pin, the head is missing. Without the head, it is hard to assign the hair pin to a type, and therefore a closer date range. A degree of swelling is present towards the top of the shaft, a feature common on some types of hair pins. Due to the degree of working, it is hard to identify what type of animal the bone has originally come from, but probably it was fashioned from a metapodial (lower leg) of a cow or sheep sized animal.The pin measures 85.25mm in length and has a maximum diameter of 4.32mm. It weighs 1.7 grams.Bone pins, like those made from copper alloy, jet or glass, are commonly thought to have functioned predominately as hair pins during the Roman period, with some female hairstyles requiring multiple pins to hold the hair in place. Other uses for bone pins have included clothing fasteners.
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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