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Description: | A copper alloy possible linch pin terminal of Late Iron Age or Early Roman date. It is a socket which is three quarters round in section and tapers from 16.84mm wide to 10.97mm at the apex. A moulded groove filled with a row of beading decorates the rim at the wider end. At the closed end, the socket bends to the side and has a solid terminal which points to the side and is semicircular in section. The flat reverse is open as if there was a separate flat back plate. The socket contains iron corrosion and has red brown patina.The identification of this object is not certain, but it has similarities with DUR-E3DC87 and YORYM-2A73B8.Sometimes this shaped terminal of a composite linch pin is known as 'hoof' type terminal (Hutcheson, N. 2004 Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, landscape and society B.A.R. 361 p. 109). Hutcheson illustrates similar examples, No. 46, and dates these to circa 100BC to circa 100AD. The closest local parallels can be seen in Stead, p44-6. These examples were found in cemetery contexts in East Yorkshire.
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