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DRESS PIN

Unique ID: SOMDOR408

Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow status: Published Find published

Head of decorative dress pin. Cast copper alloy with ivory inlay. Circular domed pin head. - a thickened disk shape. Off centre drilled socket at back. Raised bosses around the sides. Circular ivory inlay housed in recess at frond and held in place by a central copper alloy rivet.

Notes:

PAL 1124

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1540

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Diameter: 18.12 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1999

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Animal skeletal material
Manufacture method: Multiple
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: Weymouth and Portland (District)
To be known as: Weymouth

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

References cited

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Audit data

Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 24 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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