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Description: | Silvered head of iron pin or needle. A double-ribbed collar decorated with vertical grooves encloses a socket for the iron shank. Above the collar a female bust in high relief is worn and the facial features are missing. A discoidal terminal on the top of the head is pierced by an off-centre round aperture and is decorated on both faces with curving lines of punched dots. An ovoid and slightly concave patch of dark reduced fired clay visible in the centre of the reverse of the bust is surrounded by a raised rim of metal which is turn is surrounded by a dull grey deposit that is probably solder. The clay, part of the mould, shows that there has been some loss of metal from the area where it is visible. The decorated terminal is reminiscent of the upper parts of mid to late 1st-century pins or needles with military standard heads (Cool 1990, 172, fig.13, Group 27). There is also some similarity to a socketed pin head with female bust from Narford (HER 32309). Length (excluding remains of iron shank) is 30mm. Maximum width is 11mm. Maximum thickness is 6mm.
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