Record ID: FAHG-1C5728
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Polyhedral pinhead in the shape of a cube with the corners cut off to produce a faceted shape. The single visible face is one of the lozengiform sides, and this has engraved decoration around a central reserved lozenge. The shaft appears to be entirely missing. 8th or, more probably, 9th century.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2013
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Record ID: FAHG-1C4203
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Head and socket from a composite pin of middle to late Anglo-Saxon date, probably 9th century. The head is in the shape of a cube with the corners cut off to produce a faceted shape; all of the faces visible in the photograph (two lozengiform side faces, two upper triangular faces, and the just-visible lower triangular and upper lozengiform faces) appear to have engraved decoration. On other examples of this type the engraving is inlaid with niello. There is a substantial collar beneath the head, and then a slightly flaring circular-section socket with a circular hole passing right th…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2013
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Record ID: SF8878
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pinhead and part of shaft. The head is a cuboid with the corners cut off, measuring 7 mm wide by 5 mm thick. It is quite corroded and no decoration survives on any of the faces. A slight collar below the head can just be seen, above the circular-section shaft. This tapers to 1.5 mm thick at the old break. Total surviving length, 23 mm. Middle Anglo-Saxon, 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8866
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head with tiny stub of shaft. The head a flat inverted drop shape, with gilded relief decoration on one face consisting of tightly packed asymmetric interlace with both curves and angles. The gilding survives on the higher parts, but in the lower parts dirt obscures it; this dirt should only be removed by an expert conservator as the pinhead appears very fragile and some of the edges may already have been lost. The stub of shaft is oval in cross-section, and has been bent above an old break. The interlace is Anglo-Saxon and dates the pin to the 8th century.
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8690
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin. The head is a flat cuboid, 7 mm wide and 4 mm thick, with the corners cut off; there is no decoration on any of the faces. Below the head is a collar, and then a circular-section shaft. The shaft is a little bent some way above the old break. Length as bent, 39 mm.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8685
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pinhead and part of shaft. The pinhead is an irregular cube of side 6 mm; the faces are not at right angles and the corners are cut off. There is no decoration on any face. Below the head is a collar, and then a tiny fragment of circular-section shaft. The break is fairly fresh. There are small areas of hard pale grey concretions on the head which look like decayed solder. Middle Anglo-Saxon, 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8254
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a cuboid with the corners not particularly neatly cut off. The cuboid measures 6 mm wide, 5 mm deep and 5 mm tall. The four main side faces, and the top face, have a bold ring-and-dot motif, but in some cases the face is too small to take the complete outer ring and the effect is of a single raised ring. The cut-off corner faces are undecorated. The lower face tapers into the shaft, which has a square-section collar at the top. Two of the faces of the collar have a single transverse groove, and the other two are large enough to…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8233
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a flattened cuboid with the corners cut off; the cuboid is 10 mm wide, 5 mm thick and 11 mm tall. On one of the major faces three ring-and-dot motifs can be seen in a horizontal line, and on the other four can be seen in a ring around the outside; it is probable that originally there were five arranged in a quincunx on both faces. Faint traces of a single ring-and-dot can be seen on nearly all of the upper and lower cut-off corners, and on one of the side faces, and there was also probably a single one on the top face. The poor c…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8221
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head and top of shaft from a pin. The head is made from copper alloy. It is in the form of a cuboid measuring 7 mm square in cross-section and 10 mm long, with the corners cut off. On three of the four main lozenge-shaped faces are five dots drilled in a quincunx and filled with a white material which may possibly be a decayed inlay. On the fourth main face is a pierced D-shaped lug to take a linking chain or cord. All the other faces are undecorated. From the base of the head the shaft emerges; this is made of iron, and is circular in cross-section measuring c. 3 mm in diameter.…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7494
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Coppr-alloy pin, missing lower part of shaft. The head is a cube of side 7 mm, with the corners cut off to give a facetted effect. There is no visible decoration on any face, and some of the angles are rubbed so that a bright brassy metal shines through. Around the top of the circular-section shaft is a small biconical collar. The shaft is straight and measures 2 mm in diameter for the whole of its surviving length; it ends in a worn break.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6879
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin, apparently complete. The head is a relatively large cube with the corners cut off; the cube measures 7 x 7 mm and is 8 mm thick. The edges of the head are worn down and there does not appear to be any surviving decoration. Beneath the head, the circular-section shaft begins immediately with no collar or other decoration. The top 15 mm of the shaft is just 2 mm in diameter; it is then bent, and swells to 3.5 mm before narrowing again and bending back. The bends do not appear to have caused stress to the metal, but the surface is generally very worn so that it is …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK INGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6135
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin, missing the tip of its shaft. The head is a flattened bicone in shape, convex above and conical below, tapering down to a collar at the top of the shaft. The shaft is circular in cross-section. The proportions are slender; the head is 6 mm in diameter and the shaft is only just over 1 mm in diameter. Total surviving length 30 mm.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5102
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin with flattened biconical or globular head; the upper part of the head is a flattened hemisphere and the lower part is conical, and the junction between the two is rounded. Diameter of head 7 mm. The conical lower part of the head tapers down to a slight collar, and beneath this the shaft starts with an unusual 2 mm square section. Splits and seams can be seen running down two diagonally opposite angles of the shaft, showing that it was made by hammering rather than casting. The angles of the shaft become more rounded towards the tip, but the section never becomes t…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALSHAM LE WILLOWS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4742
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pinhead with inlaid silver scroll decoration. The pinhead is hollow and is made from thin sheet copper-alloy in the shape of a near-cube with the corners cut off. It is 16 mm tall, and the side faces measure 14 x 13 mm. Now very corroded, the cut-off faces and perhaps also the top lozengiform face appear to be undecorated. The four lozengiform faces around the sides, however, have raised borders and sunken centres, and in its sunken centre one face has the remains of a niello panel with two inlaid reversed-S silver wire scrolls. There are hints that the panel was outlined with a b…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4705
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a cube of side 6 mm with the corners cut off; although the pin is rather corroded, each face seems always to have been undecorated. Beneath the head is a collar, and then 15 mm or so of perfectly straight circular-section shaft, tapering to 1.5 mm at the break. A classic middle Anglo-Saxon pin type.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4706
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a flattened bicone, and is decorated with 12 deep curving oblique grooves which radiate from the centre of the top. Instead of a collar, the top of the shaft has decoration of three turns of a spiral groove. The shaft is perfectly straight. Head diameter 7 mm, shaft diameter 2.3 mm, surviving length 27.5 mm. A classic middle Anglo-Saxon pin type.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4659
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pin head and part of shaft. The head is of 'biconical with median band' shape, appears to be undecorated, and is 7-8 mm in diameter. There is no collar beneath the head; the shaft tapers from 3 mm diameter at the top to 2 mm diameter, bends and is then broken. The break extends up the middle of the shaft, suggesting that it was made in two pieces then hammered together. Dating of pins with no collar can be difficult as there is little difference between middle Anglo-Saxon and Roman examples, but the shape of the head and the construction of the shaft both suggest a middle Anglo-Sax…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4125
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Spherical pin head with stub of shaft topped with a collar. Decorated with 5 irregularly spaced blobs of inlaid brownish ?enamel around the top and circumference, and another 3 pits which may be corrosion bubbles or may be empty champlevé enamel cells. Overall length 12 mm. Diameter of head 8 mm. Old break. From the form of the pin, it is certainly Middle Anglo-Saxon. Susan Youngs at the British Museum has examined the pin under a microscope, and comments that the brownish blobs look possibly vitreous. They appear to be a semi-translucent brown, which is not known in Middle An…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.