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Description: | Fragment of Roman bone hair pin or needle, possibly pin waste. The Crummy type is unknown, but shape is consistent with a Greep Type A, straight sided tapering to a point. However it could also be the point of a bone needle, See LON-62C774 for parallel. This fragment is faceted but not polished or finished and so could be the waste from pin manufacture (Greep 1983). It could equally be part of the shaft of a pin or needle.Length: 22.45mm, Diameter: 3.64mm, Weight: 0.32gReference: Greep, S. 1983. Objects of animal bone, antler, ivory and teeth from Roman Britain. Unpublished PhD thesis: University of Cardiff.Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-1979. Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, Colchester.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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