Record ID: BH-09F9C0
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A silver pin of Roman or Early Medieval date, c. AD 43-850. The head comprises a flat globular sphere with no collar below. Extending from the base is a circular-sectioned shaft that gradually tapers to a rounded point. None of the surfaces are decorated. Measurements: Length: 24.7mm; head diameter: 6.1mm; shaft diameter: 2.4mm; weight: 1.85 grams. Discussion: The form of the pin broadly resembles types of both the Roman and the Anglo-Saxon (8th-9th centuries) periods. Such pins usually feature globular or ball-shaped heads, with c…
Created on: Friday 25th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-84B317
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Ring-shaped head from a silver proto-handpin. The head is oval, slightly wider than it is tall, and fairly flat, with both front and reverse slightly rounded, but the front more than the reverse. There is an oval perforation placed slightly above centre. The front has very well-executed decoration in two halves, an area of ribbing on the upper half and a sunken panel area of relief decoration on the lower half.  The ribbed area is covered with wider and narrower transverse ridges, which could also be described as beads separated by fillets. There are 13 of the b…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2022
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Record ID: CAM-E03CB9
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Roman to Early-Medieval pin with biconical head. This artefact weighs 1.71g. The head has a sub-circular cross-section of 5.3mm diameter and a height of 6.0mm. The top of the head is has a rounded apex rather than terminating in a point. 1.4mm of the pin head's height is a straight sided mid section between the conical upper and lower hemispheres. Directly below the pin head, the circular sectioned pin shaft has a diameter of 1.4mm. The shaft continues in a straight line, from the centre of the base of the head, for a length of 11.5mm at which point it has a diameter of 2.0mm…
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-756881
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A silver late Roman to Early Medieval hand pin with a projecting ring head, dating from AD 300 - 500. The pin has a sub-circular head plate with a wide U-shaped semi-circular basal plate, above which are three forward projecting cylinders with domed heads that bridge that gap between the ends of the U-shaped plate and form the upper arch of the head. The ring head is vertical and is off-set from the top of the shaft. The shaft has a right angle bend behind the head, and then tapers to a point. The pin is in very good condition. The surface is patinated to black in places, but…
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-703936
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver pin, 25.5mm in length, with a plain globular head with a flattened top, 5 mm in diameter, and no collar underneath. The remaining shaft is 20.8mm long, with circular cross section and tapers from 2.7mm at the head to 1.9mm in diameter at the break. There is no visible decoration. Length: 25.5 mm; Diameter: 5.0 mm; Weight: 1.69 g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2019
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Record ID: NMS-205F5C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver pin of possible Roman date. It has an undecorated oval head. The shaft tapers slightly along its length and is bent at right angles in two places, terminating in an old break. Dimensions: Length (bent): 18mm, approximate length unbent: 44.2mm, diameter of head: 4.1mm, weight: 1.1g. Discussion: A number of similar examples have been reported as Treasure and are recorded on the PAS database, including BERK-F717EC, BUC-373880 (2018T110) & CAM-9ADF59 (2018T844). Date: c. AD 43 - 409.
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
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Record ID: CAM-9ADF59
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A white metal, silver, Roman pin weighing 2.98g. The pin head has a circular cross-section with a diameter of 7.4mm and height of 4.7mm. In profile the head is best described as sub-oval, the top and base being sub-conical to domed. The median part of the head has straighter convex sides giving the overall appearance of the head a partially flattened (through the centre) sphere (an undecorated flattened biconnical, or elliptical with slight point above and below, head). The shaft has a diameter of 2.8mm and extends out from the centre, of the base, of the pin head. The initial c.22.6m…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th July 2021
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Record ID: SUR-5A0966
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate silver head from a Roman hair pin, 21.1mm in length. The form from the base to the tip comprises a conical lower collar, a flattened biconical reel, a large flattened sphere, a large double disc at the midpoint (diameter 9.2mm), a waisted reel, a smaller waisted reel and a conical or pointed acorn-shaped tip. The shaft is broken off at the base of the head. There is damage to the upper section in the form of a pronounced cut which has bent and nearly severed the tip of the pin head. Length 21.1mm, diameter (at widest part) 9.2mm, weight 3.59g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-556774
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2018 T353. Description: Silver-gilt figurine in the shape of a bird, an element of a larger composite object, the nature is which is unclear. The bird had a long straight neck and a downward curving beak, circular recessed eyes (originally set with glass or gemstones, now absent), a comma-shaped torso and long straight back that terminates in a truncated tail that appears to have been deliberately cut and filed flat. The entire body of the bird is decorated with a series of neatly incised lines in groups of central 'ribs' with incised lines at angles to these…
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-71EE2C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver pin of Roman or Early Medieval date, about AD 43 - 850. It has a flattened globular head without a collar below. The flattened upper face is incised with a cross or X with one arm very worn. The base of the head is also flattened. The incomplete shaft is circular in section and 2.5mm diameter. The lower part of the pin is missing. The pin is 25.6mm long, 7.7mm diameter. 3.1g. The pin can be paralled by pins of Roman date (cf. Cool 1990, Group 2, fig. 1.5) but it could equally be Anglo-Saxon. For comparisons see the globular headed types from Flixborough (Evan…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-150E9A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete object comprising an iron shaft within a gilded silver cover. The cover is split along one side where the iron corrosion has burst through. The object has a domed top with a moulded collar, below which is a concentric row of punched annulets. Just before the break is a concentric row of punched annulets, now partially obscured by iron corrosion product. The shaft is moulded into a series of alternating ridges and grooves of varying thicknesses; it terminates in an old break. Dimensions: Length: 19.3mm, width: 13.4mm, thickness: 2.7mm, weight: 1.4g. …
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-E60917
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman or perhaps middle early-medieval (AD c.43-c.850) pin with a faceted cuboid/polyhedral head. The shaft is bent roughly half way along so the pin is in a V-shape when viewed from above. The shaft is circular in cross-section and tapers in diameter from 2.2mm below the head to 0.5mm at the tip. There is no collar, suggesting that the pin is probably Roman rather than early-medieval in date. The head is a roughly shaped polyhedron (cuboid with the corners cut off) and measures 4.7mm long, 4.6mm wide and 4.4mm thick. The pin measures 26.0mm in length (unbent, c.50mm long) …
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-33F9CE
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver semi-globular pin head? having a flat top and a small portion of a circular-section shank, of irregular form. It may be a hairpin or a knob. No decorations are visible over the surface. Length: 7.5mm, width: 7mm, weigth: 2.36gr.
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 19th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bosworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-2FEFA3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A section of silver wire, possibly the remains of a pin dating to the Roman period. The wire is circular in section, measuring 111mm in length and 2mm in diameter. One terminal is irregular in shape and appears to have been cut into or notched.
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: IARCH-86D1EA
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 "silver pin with circular head in which is set a blue glass bead", length 7.3 cm. 7.3cm L
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Canterbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-18152F
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Proto-hand pin "with flattened ring head, its upper curve cast with bead-like swellings.; the lower area is flattened and decorated with red enamel, leaving a reserved pattern . This pattern is a symmetrical scroll with a central pelta and two curving side lobes" (Painter 1977, 58). Painter 1977, 58; Johns 1974, 295 Catherine Johns has given a fuller description and discussion of the silver proto-hand pin in Ant. J., 54 (1974), 295-7, fig. 6, and pl. LXVI a, for pin, and other silver objects. Cp. J.P.C. Kent and K.S. Painter, Wealth of the Roman World (1977), 58, no. 118 for …
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oldcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-B72FA6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A base-silver pin dating to the Roman period. The pin comprises a circular-section stem which tapers to a point at one end. The stem is slightly bent at this end. At the other, the stem is decorated with a reel and disc moulding before extending to the head. The head comprises a conical moulding, which expands at its apex to form a further, more rounded conical terminal. The pin measures 70mm in length. The stem has a maximum diameter of 4mm; the head a maximum diameter of 8mm. The pin forms part of Cool's Group 2 (Knob on Cordon Heads), Sub-Group B (pear-shaped head), a type which ap…
Created on: Friday 12th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: BERK-F717EC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver pin of probable Roman date. The pin has a broadly circular-sectioned shank and a simple undecorated globular head that would fit into Cool's (1990) Group 1C. The tip of the pin is now missing. Cool (ibid: 153-154) notes that this type is distributed across southern Britain and were in use throughout the Roman period, becoming more popular during the late Roman period. However the type may have been use through to the middle early-medieval period (c. AD 43 - 850). Without contextual information is is not possible to date this pin accurately, although the appeara…
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lockinge CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BB711C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete probably Roman silver hair pin, most of the shank missing. The upper half of the biconical head is very uneven, miscast or damaged, while on the lower half a ring of pellets surrounds the springing of the pin. What is left of the shank is badly distorted. No close parallel noted. Diameter of head 7mm. Weight 1.50g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 1st August 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: SF-1DD462
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver probable hair-pin fragment in form of a human hand. The tips of the fingers are now missing and appear to have been cut off neatly and possibly intentionally, there is a similar neat but old break beneath the hand, therefore no pin shaft survives. Only the lower parts of the fingers survive, defined by a series of rather crude incised grooves. The curved thumb in intact. Dimensions: 1.75g, 10.30mm in length, 8.11mm in width and 4.54mm thickness. Discussion: Roman hair-pins in the form of a human hand are a well-known type. They are Cool's type 7 (1990:157-158…
Created on: Friday 6th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steeple Bumpstead', grid reference and parish protected.