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HAIR PIN
Unique ID: NMS-397DB8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Roman copper alloy pin of Cool's (1990) Group 1E dating to the period c. AD 43 - 409. Biconical head, now heavily worn. The shaft is tapering, but is slightly swollen in the centre and is bent at an obtuse angle just below the sweling. The tip is tightly curled.
Cool (1990, fig.1, no.3) illustrates a very similar example, which also has a swollen shaft and belongs to her Group 1E (knob heads with swollen shafts), which is concentrated in East Anglia. Although she lists no precise parallels from dated contexts, Cool (ibid., 154) suggests that pins with knob heads were in use throughout the Roman period although may have gained popularity later in the period.
Class: Cool 1990, Group 1E
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Exactly AD 43
Date to: Exactly AD 409
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 68.1 mm
Weight: 3.4 g
Diameter: 6.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 10th May 2018 - Thursday 10th May 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 57055
Other reference: NHRG062018
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Kenninghall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM0585
Four figure Latitude: 52.42454153
Four figure longitude: 1.01357979
1:25K map: TM0585
1:10K map: TM08NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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