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PIN
Unique ID: LEIC-ADA5C5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy pin, 63mm long, 3mm wide at the shank and 8mm in diameter at the head, weighing 3.87g.
The object has a light green patina with some pitting and spots of orange / light brown and white. The shank is slightly bent along most of its length, and appears to have been broken near the tip. The shank widens slightly near the head. The head is sub-spherical and has an incised ring around its widest point, and five pairs of incised lines radiating from the centre of the top.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 1
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 63 mm
Width: 3 mm
Weight: 3.87 g
Diameter: 8 mm
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Uttlesford (District)
Parish or ward: Thaxted (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL6130
Four figure Latitude: 51.945203
Four figure longitude: 0.34103
1:25K map: TL6130
1:10K map: TL63SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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