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Description: | A Medieval silver faceted head and socketed shaft from a composite pin of probable 13th Century date. The pin head is polyhedral (cuboid, with the corners cut off), 9.1mm long and 7.8mm wide. All four of the side lozengiform faced sides and the top have relief decoration of a lozengiform groove with a quatrefoil in the center. The triangular faces each have a triangular groove. There is a pellet border between each of the decorated facets. The hollow shaft begins with a collar around the top, 6.3mm in diameter and 2.1mm thick. Below this, the shaft is 1.1mm thick and 5.5mm in diameter at the bottom. There is a 1mm circular perforation in one side of the shaft. The base of the shaft terminates in an old break. There is no indication of what material the rest of the shaft may have been made from but it is thought it was probably organic, e.g. wood or ivory.There is a good parallel to this object on the PAS database, SF6553 and CAM-D49EC6 (2010 T308) which have been identified by James Robinson as 13th-century.In total the pin head is 18.4mm long and weighs 3.56 grams.
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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