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Description: | An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy polyhedral-headed pin (700-900).This pin has a cuboid head with the corners cut off and the shank is bent.The head has fourteen facets including the upper face and the underside from which the shank projects. Twelve of the faces have a ring-and-dot motif and the upper face is plain. Between the head and the shank there is an irregular collar which is not very pronounced. Immediately beneath the collar the shank tapers for a short distance and then becomes more or less uniform in its diameter. It is roughly circular in cross-section. Close to its end, the shank is bent at an angle of about 80°. This bend may be deliberate.This pin has a green patina and may be complete.Height: 28.29mm; width of head: 5.87mm; thickness of head: 5.22mm; diameter of collar: 2.49mm; diameter of shank beyond the bend: 1.14mm. Weight: 1.46g.The presence of a collar suggests this pin is Saxon rather than Roman (Geake 2001:38).The design is typically Middle Anglo-Saxon and there are close parallels from the Hamwic site at Southampton (Hinton 1996: p. 22, nos. 169/327; 349/38 and 169/1905).
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