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Description: | Viking copper alloy loop-headed ringed pin of the Late Saxon period, the ring missing and the shank bent and cracked. The top has been hammered and curled over into a loop of flat-section. The head is of square cross-section, with the reverse engraved with a row of Xs and overlapping Vs and the front moulded into the form of a highly stylised downward facing animal. Very shallow curving lines on one side are probably the result of damage or wear. A transverse engraved line around all four faces marks the base of the head. The upper half of the shank is sub-square in cross-section and the lower half square. For discussions of ringed pins and their Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian backgrounds see Fanning 1994, Griffiths, D. in Griffiths et al. 2007, 67-9, Graham-Campbell 1980, cat. no. 204, Mainman and Rogers 2000, 2580-2, and NMGW-E8F8A8. It is likely that the present example is of Scandinavian origin, like others found in East Anglia, at Brooke, Norfolk (HER 28863, Margeson 1997, fig. 20; Fanning 1994, 21), Congham, Norfolk (HER 3565), and Stanton, Suffolk (NMS-60EDC6). Length 128mm. Width and thickness at loop 8.4 and 4.5mm. Weight 12.44g. Late 9th - 10th century.Field SH3
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