File:Bronze pin with decorated polyhedral head detail.jpg

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Plain-Ringed Pin (detail), Viking, 10th- 11th century

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Plain-Ringed Pin   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Justin Gawke
Title
Plain-Ringed Pin
Description
Ringed Pins functioned as simple dress fasteners and essentially consist of pins with separate swivel rings inserted in the heads. Several different types of ringed pins are known, differentiated from one another on the basis of the form of their pinheads and rings. The Hunt Museum collection has two examples of teh plain-ringed class (HCA 523 and 520) while the others are kidney-ringed in form; all four examples feature polyhedral headed pins. Engraving or stamping decorates the objects, with particular attention paid to the pinheads. Simple interlaced twin-link motifs occur in this position on two of the pins (HCA 520 and MGO 63).
Date 23 March 2020, 15:57
Medium Cooper Alloy
Dimensions Length from 12.2 -17.2
institution QS:P195,Q2659085
Current location
Collections and Exhibitions
Accession number
HCA 521
Source Hunt Museum
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Public Domain via Hunt Museum

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