PIN
Unique ID: HESH-63A7F5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
A complete worked bone hair pin, of mid Roman dating (43 AD to 410 AD).
The head of the pin is flat. The pin tapers in size from the top down to the point. Due to the degree of working, it is hard to identify what type of animal the bone has originally come from, but probably it was fashioned from a metapodial (lower leg) of a cow or sheep sized animal.
The pin measures 75.86mm in length, head diameter is 7.71mm. It weighs 4.1 grams.
Bone pins, like those made from copper alloy, jet or glass, are commonly thought to have functioned predominately as hair pins during the Roman period, with some female hairstyles requiring multiple pins to hold the hair in place. Other uses for bone pins have included clothing fasteners.
Class: hair
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: ROMAN
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Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Length: 75.86 mm
Weight: 4.1 g
Diameter: 7.71 mm
Quantity: 1
Personal details
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Recorded by: Mr Peter
Reavill
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Identified by: Mr Peter
Reavill - [view all attributed records]
Secondary identifier:
Miss Teresa Gilmore - [
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Animal skeletal material [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Hand made [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands
County: Shropshire
District: Shrewsbury And Atcham
Parish: Wroxeter And Uppington
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ5608
Four figure Latitude: 52.667915 Four figure longitude: -2.652075
1:25K map: SJ5608
1:10K map: SJ50NE
WOEID: 12602188
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Other[scope notes]
Specific landuse: Garden[scope notes]
Adjacent Domesday Book places
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Created:
Thursday 23rd February 2012
Updated: Tuesday 13th March 2012
