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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy hair pin of Roman date. The terminal end survives, the shaft and tip now missing due to old breaks. The top of the shaft is cylindrical in form with a raised, cross-hatched cylindrical drum. Above this is an oval moulding or bead from the top of which extends the terminal knop. This is flat, disc shaped in form with a central circular aperture, a slight rectangular collar with incised transverse groove separating the terminal from the oval bead. The entire object has a green patina and measures 29.27mm in length, 9.40mm in width at terminal, 4.84mm in diameter, 1.16mm in thickness at terminal, and 2.05g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman hair pin. It finds close parallels in Cool's Group 9 pins with triple unit standard heads (Cool, 1990: p. 160, figs. 6.5-7). This suggests a probable date range in the 2nd-4th centuries AD for the current example. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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