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Description: | Gilded copper alloy disc, probably a pinhead; now incomplete and very worn. About a third of the disc is missing, but a central circular hole survives complete, and the rest of the plate is decorated on the front with chip-carved interlace in perhaps four panels. There is at least one reserved strip radiating from the central hole. A second oval hole near the edge is perhaps where a separately attached pin shaft or chain to a second linked pin may have broken away, although it occurs at an irregular point in the circumference, not at 12, 3, 6 or 9 o'clock. The gilding is largely confined to the display face, although there are also two tiny bright spots on the reverse. The style of interlace dates this object to the 8th century. Diameter 17.9mm, thickness 1.3mm, weight 0.87g, Diameter of central circular hole 2.5mm. Similar circular pinheads with interlace can be found on the PAS database at BH-4FDFA5, LIN-C219D3, SWYOR-3DEE70, NLM-028751, SUR-34D906, GLO-6F0C75, DENO-BF15B8 and LIN-24A337. Excavated examples are known from Flixborough (Rogers in Evans and Loveluck 2009, 36, 67 and 73, nos 560, 561 and 673) and Brandon (Making of England no. 66c). The Flixborough examples are however all either residual in 10th-century contexts or unstratified, and the context of the Brandon example is unpublished.
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