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PIN
Unique ID: WILT-99F568
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval zoomorphic pin dating to the 8th century. The shaft of the pin is circular in cross section, tapering a little from 2.50mm in diameter to 2mm in diameter in the length extant. The shaft of the pin has a sharp point at one end but this is probably the break, rather than the fulll extent of the original item. The terminal of the pin is in the form of a zoomorphic head, dog-like but with an extended snout. There is a small collar above which is the skull of the animal, roughly spherical, with a raised moulding of two sub-triangular features either side to represent ears, flattened against the sides of the skull. The snout projects from the sphere of the skull and ends in a blunt nose. Two dots represent eyes set within a concave moulding on each side to represent eye-sockets. The head has a flattened underside to represent the chin of the animal. It is 13.50mm in length. and is 7.10mm in width.
The pin has a grey-green mottled patina.
Broadly similar pin terminals have been recorded on the PAS database cf YORYM-F18D94
The pin is 42.04mm in length and weighs 3.39g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.04 mm
Weight: 3.39 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM - 4790
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Sixpenny Handley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9714
Four figure Latitude: 50.92544652
Four figure longitude: -2.0440555
1:25K map: ST9714
1:10K map: ST91SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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