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Description: | The head and a short section of the shaft from a cast copper alloy pin probably of Roman date, AD200 - 410. The head is polyhedral in form, being a cube with the corners cut off, resulting in a polyhedron of fourteen faces (six lozenges and eight triangles). The remains of a circular shaft protrudes from one of the lozenge shaped faces; the remainder of the shaft and the point have broken away and are missing. The pin head has a light green patina. It is15.9mm long, including the remains of the shaft and the polyhedral head measures 8.7mm by 9.5mm. It weighs 5.39gm.Polyhedral pins are dated to both to the Roman and Early Medieval periods but the absence of a collar beneath the head suggests that this example is probably Roman. Similar pins are illustrated in Crummy, 1981, The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, page 29. These are dated to AD250 or later. Similar pins may also be found on the database, see for example reference IOW-C79E47.
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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