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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy pin of Roman to Early-Medieval date. Only the head and a fragment of the shaft survive, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.The head is a flattened biconical shape. Separated in the centre by a circumferential groove. Both faces are undecorated. At the base of the head is an integrally cast shaft. This is cylindrical in form before terminating in old breaks.This pin measures 11.80mm in length, 10.01mm in diameter at the head, 2.30mm in diameter at the shaft,2.74g in weight.There is a similar Roman example published by Cool (Cool, 1990, p. 152, no. 3) and a similar Early-Medieval example recorded on the PAS database (SF-C88A24).
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