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PIN
Unique ID: SOM-5AD467
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Post-Medieval copper alloy dress pin, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1650. The pin head is hollow cast, comprising of a sphere of copper alloy with an irregular aperture at one end. This is surrounded by a border of corded copper alloy wire, part of a larger psuedo-filigree design, symetrical along the transverse median line, and comprising of large pointed ovals divided by small circles, with the median line deliniated by open crescents alternating in direction, each containing three extremely small circles arranged in a triangle. At the apex of the head projects a knop, with a copper alloy wire running through it.
Dimensions: Height 18.1mm; diameter 15.4mm; weight 4.16g.
Similarly decorated pins in precious metal are relatively common finds, and base metal examples imitating these designs are known: cf. NMS-1CD938, IOW-EF6C57, SOM-48704D, though the design on this example is not typical, the group evidently contains some variation, eg. DENO-4B7B67.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 18.1 mm
Weight: 4.16 g
Diameter: 15.4 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 019352
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Ilminster (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST3714
Four figure Latitude: 50.92200241
Four figure longitude: -2.8976755
1:25K map: ST3714
1:10K map: ST31SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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