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Description: | An incomplete Middle Early-Medieval (700-800) gilded copper alloy disc-headed pin from a linked-pin set. The object consists of a circular head-plate with chip-carved decoration on the face. The shaft is missing. On opposite edges of the object is a circular perforation, which would have contained the link. One of which is incomplete due to ancient damage. At the base of the object is a small nick where the shaft would have attached.The disc is decorated with two concentric fields separated by a deep groove. The inner field contains a central triquetra knot. Surrounding the knot are three curved triangular decorations. The inner field is surrounded by a circular groove. The outer field comprises of three raised lozenges, each surrounded by a larger lozenge. At each horizontal point of the outer lozenge is a wedge-shaped decoration. Two of these lozenge motifs are next to each other while the third is separated on either side by three parallel curved ridges. A raised ridge surrounds the edge of the disc.Gilding is visible on many of the raised ridges on the outer face while patches of copper alloy corrosion are contained within some of the cells of decoration. The majority of the outer face has a mid brown patina. The rear of the object is undecorated and has a mottled mid to dark green patina which is corroded in places.Sets of two or three linked pins were fashionable in the late eighth century. The most spectacular example is the linked triple pin set from the river Witham, in Lincolnshire (see L. Webster and J Backhouse The Making of England, London 1991, no. 184), but plainer pieces are also well known. The best published parallel is the one from Kegworth, Leicestershire, which is Plate IIIa in Wilson's 1964 British Museum Catalogue (Kevin Leahy pers. comm.) More commonly found in eastern and north-eastern parts of the UK, (Hinds, K (2011) WILT-609F56 A EARLY MEDIEVAL LINKED PIN Webpage available at: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/475295).
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