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Description: | Cast copper alloy polygonal pin head with a bent shaft that tapers to a point. The head is polyhedral in form (a cuboid with the corners cut off), square in profile and in section and has thirteen faces. The head is 11 mm in height, 9 mm in width and 8.5 mm in thickness. The faces are quite pitted but they appear to have several punched annulets on two sides, but there is no transverse collar at the join of head and shaft, as there is in the examples from Suffolk below. Beneath the head the shaft is circular in section and 4 mm in diameter and 60 mm in length. The object measures 71 mm in overal length and weighs 7.6 g. Similar pins from Sutton in Suffolk are recorded in SF-697583 and SF-57AED1 and a probable middle Anglo-Saxon date range from the 8th-9th centuries is suggested, but the style of head carried on throughout the Early Medieval period, and other examples from Cornwall such as CORN-AED5F4 have been dated from the 10th to 11th centuries by association.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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