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Description: | The head of a pin, probably dating from the Medieval period, AD 1150-1200. The head is made of lead-alloy, is flat, circular and is decorated on one side only. The decoration consists of a central, five-petalled rosette with three, possibly five arms radiating outward, with two openwork sections, on one of the arms there is evidence of rust in the form of a small pellet breaking through the surface of lead alloy suggesting the remains of an internal iron pin. Running around the outer edge of the object is a further circle of thirteen raised pellets.The back of the object is undecorated, but has two additional applied pieces of lead-alloy that have been soldered to the main body of the object to form a pellet and hollow tube/bridge like addition both offset from the centre, probably to hold the pin which is now missing. There are three areas of iron corrosion, one between the pellet and hollow tube/bridge like addition, one between the hollow tube/bridge like addition and an openwork section and the final area of corrosion at the edge of the piece and to the left of where the iron pin was mounted.Extending outward from the edge of the piece is a protrusion of the remains of the iron pin which is located at the oposite side of the piece to where the openwork sections are.Diameter 23.27mm, thickness 6.35mm, weight 7gCompare PAS record: PUBLIC-4DBCE1. Also SWYOR-D15487 and SWYOR-F65465.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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