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Description: | Copper alloy Pin. Cast pin with a sub-spherical head with wrythen grooved decoration of six incised spiralling grooves cut with a left hand twist, and with a further elongated collar below it and above a triple collar moulding. The shank tapers from a maximum diameter of 3.3mm below the moulding to a median diameter of 2.4mm and a minimum diameter of 1.4mm c.10mm before a sharp point. The shank was an estimated 70mm in length, and is now bent into a loop - possibly originally a double loop partially unwound by the end being snagged during a later episode of disturbance. The staged decoration of the head could suggest this to be a Roman pin, though Middle Saxon imitation of a Roman form is equally possible. The condition of this object is broadly similar - and in the case of its shank, better - than that of other Early Medieval pins reported along with it, so this later date is here preferred. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-850.Length (as found): 35mm, Width (as found): 25mm, Diameter (head): 7.7mm, Weight: 5.53gms.
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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