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Description: | A fragmentary silver artefact, probably part of an early medieval pin. The object comprises the lower portion of the pinhead, the rest lost to a worn and irregular break. The surviving portion of the plate measures approximately 3.2mm to either side of the shaft, and has a curved edge suggesting that the pinhead was originally circular. The front of the pinhead is decorated with what appears to have been a concentric circular border. The outermost border is a segmented line, the segments of irregular length and some of irregular shape rather than being tiny rectangles. Inside this is a solid line border, and inside this towards the centre of the plate is the remnant of another motif, now not discernible due to the incompleteness of the object. The surviving decoration comprises solid lines set within depressed fields that are divided up into what appears as depressed lines. Two sections of this solid line decoration run parallel to the concentric circular border and at a distance of 0.7mm from each other turn sharply in towards the centre of the plate at an angle of less than 90 degrees. This results in a depressed line being formed between the concentric circular border that becomes sub-'T' shaped with the depressed line that is positioned towards the centre. Not enough of the central field decoration survives in order to determine the central design or to indicate whether it was symmetrical or not.The junction between the pinhead and shaft consists of a sub-triangular zone 4.5mm wide max. The edges curve out convexly to form a maximum width of 4.6mm before narrowing again to a width of 2.3mm over a length of 7.7mm. The upper surface of this junction has a solid border of 0.9mm surrounding a depressed triangle which has at its centre a solid 'V' which is the same height as the border. All areas of the surface of this zone, with the exception of the depressed triangle, are covered with tiny punch-stamped dots or marks that maybe of triangular shape that are best seen with the use of a microscope or via an enlarged image. Below the triangular zone are three transverse grooves covering a length of 2.1mm.The shaft has a sub-'D' shaped cross-section, the reverse surface being flatter than the rounded upper surface and sides, with a width of 2.0mm and thickness of 1.2mm just below the lowest transverse groove on the upper surface. The width is 1.7mm and thickness is 1.0mm at the breakDimensions:Length: 28.0 mmWidth: 8 mmWeight: 0.6 g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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