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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin of possible middle Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing most of the shaft due to old breaks. The head is polyhedral in form (a cuboid with the corners cut off), rectangular in section and has thirteen faces. The faces are worn and undecorated. At the base of the head is an area of corrosion and post-depositional damage where the integral shaft would have originally extended, but this is now completely missing due to old breaks. The entire object measures 10.44mm in length, 8.11mm in width, 7.92mm in thickness and 2.58g in weight.Similar pins, typically with ring-and-dot decorative motifs, are noted from Suffolk (West, 1998: no. 96.12; see also SF-E5B293, SF-35C798). This indicates a possible middle Anglo-Saxon date range in the 8th-9th centuries AD for the current example, although an earlier or later range cannot be ruled out entirely.
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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