File:05C243 roman hair pin (FindID 106514).jpg

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05C243 roman hair pin
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Wendy Scott, 2005-09-09 11:53:39
Title
05C243 roman hair pin
Description
English: Roman copper alloy hair pin, 84mm long and 8mm wide. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 8.57 grams. It consists of a circular shaft, 4mm in diameter, which is centrally decorated with three incised loops, 15mm apart. The pin head is in the form of a bird, either a chicken or a dove? The bird is perched on the end of the pin and has a solid kinked leg. It has a rectangular body and fanned tail. The body has one cup and ring mark at the front of each side and the tail has a central one in its upper surface. It has a curving neck and large round head with a pointy beak and a further cup and ring for its eye. The shaft of the pin has snapped cleanly off at the point of a fourth incised loop.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 100 and 400
Accession number
FindID: 106514
Old ref: LEIC-05C243
Filename: 05C243.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/74574
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/74574/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/106514
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Object location52° 43′ 28.92″ N, 1° 05′ 11.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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