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Description: | Iron Age ring-headed pin, cast in one with ring joined to the shoulder by a bulbous moulding between two low ribs with continuous transverse grooves giving the appearance of pellets. The outer edge of the ring is followed by a median rib decorated in a similar fashion. A small hole passes through the shank immediately below the head and at the top of a curving length of shank. There is a slight circular depression in the surface at the end of the hole below the decorative moulding. This would have housed a decorative discoidal appliqué or stud secured by a (now loose) rivet. This probably would have been of coral (cf. Dunning, Archaeol. J. (1934), 269-95, fig. 5 no. 2). 20mm above the point the shank is bent through 40°. Length 88mm. Head diameter 23mm. Thickness of ring-head 5mm, of bulbous moulding 8.5mm. Length of rivet 9.5mm.
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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