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LINCH PIN
Unique ID: YORYM-2A73B8
A cast copper-alloy Iron Age linch pin terminal, which is the foot of the pin. The foot has a deep circular socket, inside a cylindrical, tapering shaft. The aperture at the open end of the linch pin is now empty, this would once have held the iron pin, it has long since corroded away, leaving behind iron staining and pitted remains. The exterior of the shaft is cylindrical and bulbous, with a collar around the open end. The shaft tapers to a waisted area, before expanding and altering direction to form the flat circular plate. The flat plate terminal sits on the same plan as the side of the shaft. It is undecorated. The surface of the object is pitted but remains in a good condition, with a mid brownish-green patina.
Linch pin terminals date to the late Iron Age period, circa 100BC to 50AD. Sometimes this shaped terminal of a composite linch pin is known as 'hoof' type terminal (Hutcheson, N. 2004 Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, landscape and society B.A.R. 361 p. 109). Hutcheson illustrates similar examples, No. 46, and dates these to circa 100BC to circa 100AD. The closest local parallels can be seen in Stead, p44-6. These examples were found in cemetery contexts in East Yorkshire.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 50
Dimensions and weight
Length: 36 mm
Width: 14.4 mm
Weight: 19.9 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: Yorkshire And The Humber
County: North Yorkshire
District: York
To be known as: Wheldrake
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st May 2010
Personal details
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Recorded by: Mrs Liz Andrews-Wilson
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Identified by: Mrs Liz Andrews-Wilson - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Wednesday 11th August 2010
Updated: Wednesday 11th August 2010
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