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PIN
Unique ID: SUR-A551E7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An early Medieval copper-alloy pin with a polyhedral head 8.1mm by 6.9mm. The head has 13 facets, decorated with four punched dots on each large side facet, a single ring and dot decoration to each of the eight small triangular corner facets and an incised cross on the upper facet. The shaft is c. 23mm in length, with circular cross section 1.9mm in diameter and has a bend towards the tip, which has been lost. There is a small ridged collar at the junction of the shaft with the head.
Notes:
Polyhedral-headed pins with ring-and-dot decoration are a common find from Middle-Saxon England, and have been placed in a typology of collared pins by Haldenby (2012) with a broadly 9th century date.
Class:
Collared
Sub class: Polyhedral
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.8 mm
Width: 8.1 mm
Thickness: 6.9 mm
Weight: 3.77 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2022
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: MWS
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Nether Wallop (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3137
Four figure Latitude: 51.13144249
Four figure longitude: -1.55835116
1:25K map: SU3137
1:10K map: SU33NW
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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