File:Early Medieval Saxon polyhedral headed pin (FindID 204542).jpg

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Early Medieval Saxon polyhedral headed pin
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Derby Museums Trust, Anja Rohde, 2007-12-30 16:05:19
Title
Early Medieval Saxon polyhedral headed pin
Description
English: Early medieval pin; cast copper alloy dress pin with polyhedral head. The pin is of Anglo-Saxon manufacture and probably dates to the 8th-10th century. The head is a truncated cuboid shape, decorated with punched ring and dot decoration. Both the side faces and each of the diagonal faces has a single ring and dot in the centre, while the front and back faces each have four rings and dots, arranged in a diamond pattern. The shaft has a circular cross section and is broken off about 10mm from the head. There is no collar between the head and the shaft, which may suggest a somewhat earlier date within the above date range.

Length 21.24mm, width (head) 7.70mm, depth (head) 5.35mm, thickness (shaft) 2.41mm, weight 2.49g.

Compare, for example, the pins from Meols in the catalogue by Griffiths et al, page 67 (illustrated on page 74, plate 10), especially pin 357 which is very similar.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 700 and 999
Accession number
FindID: 204542
Old ref: DENO-7B1731
Filename: E5423 polyhedral pin.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/160028
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/160028/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/204542
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 1 December 2020)
Object location53° 03′ 27″ N, 0° 46′ 48.67″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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