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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy polyhedral headed pin probably of early medieval date. The object consists of the head and a small fragment of the centre of the shaft. The head is of truncated-globular or sub-polyhedral - a cuboid with the corners cut off- type. Only a narrow point of the shaft remains and the presence of a collar is uncertain. The head is decorated with one punched ring-and-dot motif remaining visible. The rest of the decoration has broken away with the patina which is largely missing. The remaining fragments of patina are dark brownish green with light green corrosion visible where the patina has broken away.Polyhedral pins are dated to both the Roman and early-medieval periods those with a collar usually indicate an early-medieval date. Roman examples without the collar can be found in Crummy, 1981, The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, page 29. These are dated to AD 250 or later. However the findspot of this example in the same area as another decorated pin with a collar and other early medieval finds suggests an early medieval date is more likely. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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