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Description: | A complete late medieval - early post medieval copper ally pin probably dating to the late 15th - 16th century. The pin has a cast, solid spherical head, there is no collar at the junction between the head and the shaft. The shaft is slightly bent at approximately half way down the length.Margeson (1993:10-11 no. 30) illustrates a similar example for which she notes "pins with cast solid heads...probably belong in the late 15th and 16th century corpus of wirework jewellery".Dimensions: length: 44.14mm; diameter: 4.41mm; weight: 0.64g.Reference: Margeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58.
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