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Description: | An incomplete cast early-medieval pin, dating c. 700-900 AD. Only the head and a portion of the shank survive extant, but apart from being broken the find is preserved relatively well with an even green patina.The pin-head is sub-cuboidal in shape, and each side (including the top, though this is not visible in the photographs provided) has been decorated with a large stamped ring-dot motif which resides within a series of diamond-shaped and triangular shaped facets. The latter are broadly orthorhombic in form, and the main ring-dot motif which resides on every side of the head is bordered by angled side-facets (8 in total) which contain smaller secondary ring-dot motifs. Underneath the head, a small circular collar is visible before the propagation of the shank. The surviving section of the pin is 21.13mm long, the head is 4.95mm wide, and the pin-shank is 1.47mm thick. The object weighs 1.1g.This pin is comparable to Cool's group 15 (Cool 1990, 164), which has been stylistically dated to the Middle Anglo-Saxon period. Similarities between this style and pins of Late Roman date are also noted, although these are not corroborated by the presence of the ring-dot motifs on the head and the collar underneath the head. A number of comparable finds are present on the PAS database, especially WMID-9778A9, which demonstrates almost identical decoration.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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