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PIN
Unique ID: FAKL-19180F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Early Medieval, copper alloy, pin, head biconical with a plain band around its middle. There is a suggestion of a collar between the head and the truncated shank. Condition poor. Length 11.8mm, Head diameter 8.6mm, Shank Diameter 2.4mm, Mass 1.99g. Haldenby (Finds Research Group datasheet 44) sees this type of pin declining in use after the Viking conquest of Yorkshire in 867.
Class: Banded biconical
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 870
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 11.8 mm
Weight: 1.99 g
Diameter: 8.6 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: ELL 340
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Elloughton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haldenby, D. | 2012 | Early Medieval Collared Pins (Datasheet 44) | York | Finds Research Group AD700-1700 |
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