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PIN
Unique ID: NLM-7AB4EB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy pin. Cast pin with a plain spherical head and a round section shank of diameter 2.2mm, bent, and broken at its end. This could be an example of the common Cool Group 1C as a Roman pin, though Middle Saxon pins of Flixborough types 100 and 101 appear identical and come from 7th-century and later contexts at that site. As the group of finds submitted from the vicinity includes at least two Middle Saxon pins the possible dating for this example is broad. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-800.
Diameter (head): 7.9mm, Length: 20.5mm, Weight: 2.23gms
Class:
Cool Group 1C
Sub class: cf. Flixborough types 100 and 101c
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.5 mm
Weight: 2.23 g
Diameter: 7.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 14th November 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM34816
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Gainsborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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