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PIN
Unique ID: DOR-53ACEF
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy pin dating to c.250 - 450. Only the head and a very small portion of the stem survives. The head is cuboid, with 4 sides and rectangular in cross-section, each panel is faceted, with cut corners and a flat lozengiform front panel. The stem is circular in cross-section and bent out of shape. This pin could be mistaken fro Early Medieval but the absence of a collar around its shank points to a Roman date.
Reference: This belongs to Cool's (1990, 164) group 15 for which she suggests a 3rd or 4th century date. Three examples were excavated at Colchester (Crummy 1983, 29, nos.486, 487, 490), one in the late or sub-Roman topsoil at Balkerne Lane and other in a period 2 context (c.320-c.450 AD) at Butt Road, together suggesting a late or early post-Roman date for this example.
Similar pins have been recorded on the database: WAW-7421DC, SF-DC75CA, SWYOR-8D2FC3.
Date: Roman.
Length: 16.95 mm.
Thickness: 7.52 mm.
Weight: 4.45 g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 250
Date to: Circa AD 450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.95 mm
Thickness: 7.52 mm
Weight: 4.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 2nd October 2016
Rally details.
This object was found at Piddletrenthide Rally 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: FRS 14
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Piddletrenthide (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY7199
Four figure Latitude: 50.78983684
Four figure longitude: -2.41278403
1:25K map: SY7199
1:10K map: SY79SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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