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[edit]| Early Medieval Pin | |||
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Clywd-Powys Archaeological Trust, Rod Trevaskus, 2009-09-28 10:28:57 |
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| Title |
Early Medieval Pin |
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| Description |
English: This is a copper alloy, Anglo-Saxon dress pin; probably from the 7th or 8th century AD. It is a well executed example with what would appear to be the remnants gold foil on the head of the pin.
A zoomorphic head sits on a circular collar and may represent a frog. It has been worked after casting with small punch marks to give some texture to the surface. In his unpublished D Phil thesis of 1991 (Univ Oxford), Seamus Ross attributed this more elaborate ‘eclectic’ pin styling, to the seventh century. The pin is now bent at right angles just below the collar. It is probable that the pin is not complete with some missing section to the lower, or point of the pin. It also has a slightly swollen section to the pin shaft. The head of the pin is 14.5 mm with a width of 3.65 mm. If straightened, the length would be around 61 mm. The surface of the pin section is heavily corroded with a mottled dark and light green patina. The head has been protected over time by the now mostly missing gold foil; it remains in slightly better condition with a mottled green patina and the remnants of gold foil within the moulded depressions. There is now less than 10% gold in the artefact. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Shropshire | ||
| Date | between 600 and 750 | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 270074 Old ref: CPAT-076382 Filename: 2949-0002.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/222698 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/222698/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/270074 |
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