File:Roman pin (FindID 60940).jpg

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Roman pin
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-03-17 09:57:19
Title
Roman pin
Description
English: A well preserved example of a copper alloy Roman pin. This pin is 100.02mm long, with a shaft thickness of 2.72mm and weighs 5.50g. The head of the pin is an elongated, faceted cuboid, having four, main lozenge shaped faces, with triangular facets between when viewed faced on, and a square top, when viewed from above. The length of the head is 10.6mm of the entire elength of the pin, and 4.62mm thick. There is no decoration on the pin head, and it has been integrally cast with the shaft. The shaft is circular in section and maintains a regular thickness for its entire length, terminating in a slightly tapered point. The overall patina of the pin is dark brown.

This pin fits into Cools Group 15 of pins (Arcaheological Journal 1990, page 164)and is therefore most likely to be 3rd or 4th century in date.Cool classifies the pin as a hair pin, but it may equally have been used as a dress pin.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 200 and 400
Accession number
FindID: 60940
Old ref: ESS-F31D86
Filename: DSCN0597.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/20900
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/20900
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/60940
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