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Description: | Gilded silver pin of probable middle Anglo-Saxon date. Solid globular head, slightly flattened on top, with a large, uneven, separately applied collar made from rectangular-sectioned wire wrapped around the top of the incomplete circular-sectioned shaft. The head and collar are both gilded.Diameter 8mm. Height of head and collar together, but excluding remains of shaft, 7mm. Diameter of shaft at break 1mm. Weight 2.7g.Although it is likely from its form that this pin dates to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (8th or 9th century), it is unusual in two respects. Firstly, although most middle Anglo-Saxon pins have collars at the junction of the head and the shaft, these are not usually separately applied. Secondly, pins of this date with small heads are rarely gilded, but compare NMS-8D3E34, LIN-D22765, BH-5A2250, DENO-554927, LIN-4D6724 and LIN-4D00F1, a group of small gilded silver and copper-alloy pins with a distinct East Midlands focus.
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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