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PIN
Unique ID: WILT-5F08EE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy gilded pin of an uncertain date. A broadly similar parallel can be found in Egan and Pritchard (1991) "Dress Accessories" page 300 No,1476 which suggests a medieval date is possible.
Overall, the pin is badly corroded, but the head of the pin can be surely identified as a pentagonal head with five points, four of which form the sides of the shape, and the fifth located at the top of the head. From each of the four side points are fine ridges which follow upwards, towards the central point at the top of the shape. Where the head of the pin has been fixed to the shank, it is also clear that the head is slightly wider than the shank. The shank is narrow at the top, but almost immeidately widen for a few millimetres, and then narrows again until forming the point.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: UNKNOWN
Period to: UNKNOWN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54.49 mm
Weight: 5.72 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: WHM 2016-75
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Wraxall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST8162
Four figure Latitude: 51.35675022
Four figure longitude: -2.2742495
1:25K map: ST8162
1:10K map: ST86SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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