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Description: | An unusually large and robust cast copper-alloy pin with an expanded head, probably from a Medieval annular buckle, now detached from it's frame. It is solidly cast, with a cross-section in the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners. It narrows evenly along it's length from 6.7mm by the head to 1.9mm at the blunt point but remains consistantly 4.4mm thick apart from a slight thinning at the point. The head is of unusual form. It is the same plane and thickness as the shaft but expanded in width. It is sub trapezoid in form with incurved sides and a convex curved outer edge, 14.8mm wide. These curved edges are bevelled while the straight edge adjacent to the pin, which is 13.1mm wide, is upright. On other objects a head this shape is described as 'fiddle' like. At the outer edge the head extends down at a right angle, narrowing to 9.2mm wide and 3.2mm thick before ending in an old break which has removed what I suggest was the rest of the loop. There are extensive file marks on all faces apart from in the centre of the front of the pin which is rough as though something has become detached or rested against this point during burial. It is 66.2mm long, 10.7mm thick including the bent down section of the loop and weighs 15.50g.The size of this object points to this being an example of a buckle pin as opposed to a brooch pin and the robustness may point to a use on horse harness. HAMP-3FE5A2 on this database from Hampshire appears identical. While the fiddle shaped head is reminiscent of Early Medieval buckles the size, proportions, details of the way the loop was attached and crudity of the shaft are all very different. While no parallels from a secure context could be immediately identified a broadly Medieval date is proposed in parallel with other large buckle and brooch pins with elaborated heads.
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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