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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy pin of probable Early-Medieval date. It is missing its tip due to old breaks. The head is cylindrical in form with flattened upper surface, tapering slightly towards the shaft. At the juncture of head and shaft is a small collar. The shaft itself is cylindrical in form, deliberately bent at an angle of more than 90 degrees, probably as a result of usage, and is slightly swollen just before the old breaks. It measures 29.51mm in length (bent; 27.10mm in width), 4.64mm in diameter at head, 1.81mm in diameter at shaft, and 1.34g in weight.This is an incomplete copper-alloy pin of probable Early-Medieval date. The presence of a collar at junction between head and shaft, as well as a swollen shaft towards the tip of the pin, suggests a middle Anglo-Saxon date for the current example, c.8th or 9th centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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