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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman hair-pin, dating to AD 100-300. This is a type 2 metal hairpin consisting of a now broken shaft, spool, reel, spool and flattened sphere. The break on the shaft is worn, and has occurred at perhaps two thirds of the way along. The pin itself is a little worn, and it has a dark brown patina on the surface. The length is 34.62mm, the diameter is 7.09mm at its thickest and 2.30 at its thinnest, and it weighs 2.95g.For parallels see Crummy 1983, p.29, figure 27, nos 467-474, and BUC-199BE4 on the database.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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