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Description: | Early Medieval, copper alloy, pin, head polyhedral (faceted) but flattened, its width being greater than its thickness. It was decorated with ring and dot motifs, executed with a ring cutter, each of the faces bears three rings, with a single ring on the two sides There is no collar between the head and the shank, although this point is marked by a chamfered shoulder The shank is truncated. Condition poor with much loss of surface, Length 18.5mm, Head width 7.8 x 5.6mm, Shank diameter 2.3mm, Mass 2.87g. Haldenby (Finds Research Group datasheet 44) sees this type of pin declining in use after the Viking conquest of Yorkshire in 867.
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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