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PIN
Unique ID: YORYM-89C104
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy pin of middle Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. The head is globular and flat on top. It is decorated with a twisted and grooved design and the top is incised with a cross. At the base of the head is a single banded circumferential collar from which the worn remains of a circular-sectioned shaft extends terminating in a worn break.
The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The pin is 12.5mm long, 9.8mm in diameter at the head, 1.8mm in diameter at the shaft and weighs 3.3g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 12.5 mm
Weight: 3.3 g
Diameter: 9.8 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E04915
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Ryedale (District)
Parish or ward: Ebberston and Yedingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE8979
Four figure Latitude: 54.19903958
Four figure longitude: -0.63723019
1:25K map: SE8979
1:10K map: SE87NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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