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Post Medieval silver dress-pin
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National Museum Wales , Wenke Domscheit, 2015-08-07 13:38:04
Title
Post Medieval silver dress-pin
Description
English: The object is a silver bodkin-type dress-pin with slot and perforation (eye) at one end, and tapering to a point at the other end. The shaft has a flattened quadrangular cross-section with bevelled edges, and is undecorated. On one face, below the slot, is a stamped hallmark .W.

The pin is bent, and has not received any conservation.

Length overall 109.2mm; maximum width 3.8mm; maximum thickness 2mm; weight 6.47g.


This type of object is now generally recognised as a bodkin of seventeenth-century date. Similar finds from have been made at Clavering, Essex (TAR 2004, no. 245), Chilcomb, Hampshire (TAR 2004, no. 246), Hougham, Kent (TAR 2004, no. 247), and Mattishall, Norfolk (TAR 2004, no. 248); Buckingham, Buckinghamshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 575), Ivinghoe area, Buckinghamshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 576), Newent, Gloucestershire (TAR 2006, no. 277), Redbourn, Hertfordshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 578) and Heckington, Lincolnshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 579). These have all been dated to the seventeenth century. A silver dress-pin of this type was found at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, in 2011 (Treasure ref. no. 12.1).

Bodkins of this type were popular in the Low Countries, and appear in household inventories as well as on female portraits (eg Baart et al 1977, 217-9, where they are dated to the early seventeenth century). Examples in Britain have not been restricted to Norfolk and Suffolk, examples being reports from across England from Gloucestershire (TAR 2005-6, no. 577) up to Lincolnshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 579).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Pembrokeshire
Date between 1600 and 1700
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 735404
Old ref: NMGW-4A61A6
Filename: DH007034_01.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/527738
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/527738/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/735404
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Object location51° 39′ 38.16″ N, 4° 51′ 32.33″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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