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Description: | An incomplete, copper alloy pin, probably of Roman date, AD 100 - 400. It has a shaft of flattened oval section and a flattened globular head, also oval. The head is decorated with incised oblique lines forming a spiral like pattern. The lower part of the shaft and the point have broken away and are missing. The remaining portion is 30.4mm long, 6.1mm wide and 3.4mm thick. It weighs 1.18gm.A similar pin is illustrated in Allason-Jones and Miket, 1984, Catalogue of Small Finds from South Shields Roman Fort, pages 183, number 3.541. Compare also NLM-8388D7. AN almost identical example is SWYOR-A1E3C0.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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