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Description: | Middle or Late Saoxon copper alloy pin. A circular hole in the base for the (missing) shaft is surounded by an anulet of twisted wire. The lower half of the pin is decorated with two pairs of opposed spirals of plain wire, the upper half with two S-shaped sprals of wire, with tiny oval or tear-drop-shaped wire annulets in the trinagular spaces between the spirals and four such anulets around a smaller piercing at the top of the pin-head where a blank space and corroded surface suggests a decorative element is missing. Gilded.Height 14.5mm. Diameter 14.7mm.See NMS-F1A270 for a broadly similar silver example, with opposed spirals formed from twisted wire. 8th - 9th century.
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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