Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-1B0D42
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete Early-Medieval copper-alloy pin. Only the head and a fragment of the shaft survive, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.
It has a globular, spherical head with a small transverse collar at its base. The shaft is cylindrical in form before terminating in old breaks.
This pin measures 7.87mm in diameter at the head, 1.96mm in diameter at the shaft, 12.47mm in length, 1.82g in weight.
Although sharing some similarities with Roman pins, the presence of a collar at junction between head and shaft suggests a middle Anglo-Saxon date for the current example. Similar parallels are noted from Suffolk (West, 1998, no. 96.8) and recorded on the PAS database (SF-ADF757), (SF-99C036).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 720
Date to: Circa AD 900
Quantity: 1
Length: 12.47 mm
Weight: 1.82 g
Diameter: 7.87 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st July 2014
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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