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PIN
Unique ID: WILT-2B6146
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Early Early-Medieval copper alloy styliform pin. It is bent into an S shape, and unbent would be c.107mm long. Its length is now 92.8mm.
The head end of the pin is flat and triangular, flaring to 7mm wide (and 1.5mm thick). It is pierced with a hole 2.6mm in diameter. This end then thickens and narrows into the shaft of the pin at the first bend, which here is oval in cross-section and measures 3.3x2.5mm. The shaft narrows and changes to becoms circular in cross-section below the next bend, where it is 3mm in diameter. It then thins to the point. It weighs 5.06g.
It can be difficult to distinguish between a stylus and a styliform pin, and they can also be difficult to date in the absence of diagnostic decoration. There are few comparable examples of either with perforated heads on the PAS database; compare YORYM-504434 and HAMP-75B8E1. The likely date, based on its proportions, is middle to late Anglo-Saxon.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: AD 700
Date to: AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 92.8 mm
Width: 7 mm
Weight: 5.06 g
Diameter: 33 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2006
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: East Wiltshire
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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