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PIN
Unique ID: NMS-4842B6
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Iron Age ring-headed pin, cast in one with ring joined to the shoulder by a bulbous moulding between two low ribs with continuous transverse grooves giving the appearance of pellets. The outer edge of the ring is followed by a median rib decorated in a similar fashion. A small hole passes through the shank immediately below the head and at the top of a curving length of shank. There is a slight circular depression in the surface at the end of the hole below the decorative moulding. This would have housed a decorative discoidal appliqué or stud secured by a (now loose) rivet. This probably would have been of coral (cf. Dunning, Archaeol. J. (1934), 269-95, fig. 5 no. 2). 20mm above the point the shank is bent through 40°. Length 88mm. Head diameter 23mm. Thickness of ring-head 5mm, of bulbous moulding 8.5mm. Length of rivet 9.5mm.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 800 BC
Date to: Circa AD 42
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 88 mm
Thickness: 8.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st March 2010 - Friday 30th April 2010
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 21456
Other reference: BKLG2012
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Barton Bendish (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7302
Four figure Latitude: 52.588271
Four figure longitude: 0.55233
1:25K map: TF7302
1:10K map: TF70SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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