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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman pin head. The pin head is sub-spherical (longer than it is wide) with five wide twisted grooves running from the apex to the base leaving wide ridges between them. There is the remains of a small pellet at the apex but most of this is now missing as a result of an old break. At the base of the pin head is a collar. The shaft of the pin is now missing due to an old break but appears to have been no larger than 3.8mm in diameter. It is 15.1mm long, 8.9mm in diameter and weighs 3.07g.Pins with globular heads, radiating spiraling lines (sometimes referred to as wrythen-headed or spiral-headed) and collars at the top of the shaft are found in both the Roman and later Early Medieval period. Early Medieval examples are mostly dated to the 8th-9th century although Mainman & Rogers (2000:2578) suggest a broad date range-c.600 to 1050 based on examples from York. However Early Medieval examples (cf Mainman and Rogers and also Hinton 1996:16) are usual much more globular than this example with more and shallower grooves. It is therefore suggested this pin dates to the Roman period along with two close parallels on this database: IOW-559393 and DENO-049002.
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