Record ID: LEIC-83D7F5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval copper alloy pin terminal or decorative mount, 16mm in length, 12mm wide and 11mm thick with a weight of 5.10g. The object has a spherical head with a circular cross sectioned shaft fragment, 2.5mm in diameter. It has curving depressions running up to its upper edge which suggest twisted rope or a knot. There is little similar recorded here and it could be a pin head or possibly a decorative terminal from a larger object?
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd May 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-556618
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pin, 18mm in length, 7mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 1.54grams. The object has an incomplete circular cross sectioned, curved shaft , 4mm in diameter. This terminates in a cuboid, facetted head with no visible further decoration. The pin fits Cool groups 14 and 15. See also DOR-E89B72 and SF-DC75CA.
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-66E5DE
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
early medieval copper alloy pin, 28mm long, 2mm in diamater (at shaft) and weighing 2.36g. The pin has an ovoid shaped head with a flat top, 8mm long and 7mm in diamater which is decorated all over with dot in incised ring motifs. The head sits on a rounded collar above the shaft which is partly intact. The pin is similar to SWYOR-2FFE70, SF-E19596 and NLM-66889C and to Flixborough type 131.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-B686A8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pinhead, Length: 20 mm, width: 9 mm, thickness: 8 mm, weight: 5.73 g, The object is incomplet andhas a rectangular head and a circular cross sectioned shaft , 4 mm in diameter. The head is plain with teh exception of each corner being cut away to produce afacetted effect. It is similar to SWYOR-8D2FC3 and IOW-C79E47
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-7D7996
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pin, 34mm long, 14mm in diameter and with a weight of 10.69g. The object has a circular cross sectioned shaft, 4mm in diameter, which is incomplete. At its upper edge it has a slight raised collar which sits below its bi-conically shaped, circular cross sectioned head. The object is quite worn and any decoration is not visible. It is similar in form to IOW-31C631 LVPL-0F3C14 YORYM-7A89E6.
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-0FC987
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy pin, 32mm long, 9mm in diamater (head) and 2mm in diamater (shaft) with a weight of 3.56g. The pin is corroded but has a globular, sub spherical head which is decorated with a series of raised rings containing recessed 'dots'. Below there is a slight rounded collar and a circular cross sectioned shaft, 2mm in diamater at the collar and tapering to a point. The object is similar to LIN-95321C SF-E19596 SWYOR-2FFE70
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-495678
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pin head, 28mm in length and 9mm in diameter with a weight of 3.38grams. The pin has a globular head with a slightly flattened upper surface. It has no signs of decoration. It tapers in width towards the shaft and sits on two faint raised, rounded collars. The shaft is circular in cross section, plain and incomplete. The form is similar to Cool types 1-3.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-48E054
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy pin head, Length: 14 mm, width: 10 mm, thickness: 9 mm, weight: 4.35 g. The pin head is very worn but has a spherical form with facetted edges, possibly hexagonal? It has a flat upper edge which has an incised circle. There is a possible ring in dot decoration showing on one or two of the sides . The head tapers into a circular sectioned shaft which is mostly missing.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-FA46E1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy pin, 27mm in length, 9mm in diameter and a weight of 2.93grams. The object has a slightly facetted globular head which is joined to the shank by a rounded raised collar. The shank is circular cross sectioned and 2.2mm in diameter. The head is decorated with a series of raised open circles, set in recessed borders. These have been stamped, as in one place they overlap slightly. The design suggests a date of c. 720 to 850, with similar examples such as SWYOR-2FFE70 LIN-95321C SWYOR-2FFE70
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-F2A2A9
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated Lead alloy pin head or stud? Length: 10 mm, diameter: 10 mm, weight: 4.58 g. The object consists of a solid dome with a circular base. It has a raised collar just above its flat base and it on the centre of its underside is the start of a shaft 2mm in diameter. The object could be some sort of stud or a pin head?
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5D796B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy disc- headed pin, Length: 27 mm, diameter: 11 mm, weight: 2.13 grams. The pin is incomplete, missing its lower shaft. This is circular in cross section and widens as it reaches the head from 2mm to 3.5 mm in diameter. The head is 3 mm deep and 11 mm in diameter. It is circular in form and triangular in cross section, emerging from the shaft and widening to form a disc with a concave upper surface which contains a central circular depression. There is no decoration. Pins of this type are hard to date as they are not often discovered within hoards. The…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-DCE6C8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age copper alloy ring headed pin fragment? 300-200 BC. Length: 29 mm, thickness: 9 mm, diameter: 21 mm, weight: 12.39 grams. The object has is circular with a narrow rounded ridge running its circumference. This ridge is decorated with a series of transverse incised lines. It has a bi-convex cross section and each surface has a central circular depression, with a convex cross section, c. 9mm in diameter. It has the remains of a circular cross sectioned shaft c. 3mm in diameter which is curved. The object is similar to NMS-6FF176, but without the central hole, which has been id…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knapwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-37F80D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pin, 45mm long, 3mm in diameter with a weight of 2.66grams. The pin is in fair condition and just missing it's tip. It has a triangular shaped, circular cross sectioned head with a flat top, 6mm in diameter. It has gently tapering sides which are decorated with a series of vertical incisions. These are broken up by a central rounded depression. The head merges into the shaft which is 2mm in diameter. The pin matches Cool group 19, which is a Roman type but not firmly dated,
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-37E1A0
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy pin, 43mm long, 3mm in diameter (shaft) with a weight of 2.98grams. The pin is misisng the end of its shaft and some surface but is otherwise complete. It has a sub spherical plain head which is 9mm in diameter and 6mm high. Below this the shaft is decorated with two rounded collars, the upper one larger and more angular, which are seprated by three rounded depressions. Below the flat headed shaft tapers in diameter from 3mm to 2mm where it has snapped. The pin fits Cool group 6, dated to 50-150AD.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-C26523
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper alloy pin, dating to 700-800AD, Length: 62 mm, width; 10 mm, thickness: 3 mm, weight: 4.09 grams. The object consists of a circular cross sectioned incomplete shaft which is bent, and c.2mm in diameter. This terminates with a raised collar below an oval shaped, rectangular cross sectioned termina, 20 x 10 x 3mm. This is in the form of a mouse like creature and has a pointed nose with a blue glass eye in a raised circle behind. On the upper edge of the object, to the left of the eye (as photographed) is a triangular projection representing an ear. From here the…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-FF9664
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval, lead alloy Pin head or fitting? 23mm in length and 18mm wide with a weight of 28.47grams. The object is spherical in form with four distinct oval, slightly bulging panels with a raised linear border surrounding each one. At one end (above the panels) is a round collar with a slight depression inside. The opposite end tapers to form the upper part of a shaft? The object is unidentified although similar examples have been recorded before, See LEIC-6C86B7 and WMID?
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-DA3567
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy pin head, 8mm in diameter and weighing 5.46grams. The object is spherical in form and has the remains of a circular sectioned, collared? shaft. Its surface is multi facetted with each flat area containing a raised ring in a circular depression, which cover the whole surface. The pin belongs to Ross' (1991, 291) Type LXIX.ii.b, his 'flat topped inverted pear-shaped' group, which are sometimes decorated with a ring and dot motif like this example (e.g. ibid., 292, fig.5.39, nos. e & f). These date from between the late 7th to the 10th century AD. from SF-B136B7
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-827400
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy pin, length: 25 mm, thickness: 1 mm, diameter: 7 mm; weight: 1.59 g. The pin has a plain spherical (globular) head which sits above a circular sectioned shaft with a double raised collar joining the two. The pin is very like HAMP-B16BDC, YORYM-76879B which are dated to the later Early Medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-6C86B7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval? lead alloy fitting, possibly a pin head, 28mm in length, 18mm diameter with a weight of 25.6grams. The object is spherical in form and has four oval shaped, semi-spherical panels with a solid raised border aorund their edges, covering it. At one end the object has a small counded collar with a possible further knop? but it has broken at this point. At the opposite end it has a rectangular cross sectioned shaft? which has four expanding projections with rounded terminals where it joins the main body. The object is probably a pin head
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-F7AAFC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy pin, 18mm in length, 8mm in diameter with a weight of 2.23grams. The head is spherical and appears to be undecorated. This sits above a prominent rounded collar which joins to a 2mm diameter shaft, which is incomplete. The pin is very similar to WAW-4F179E LIN-32F7AB, which have been dated to 720-850AD.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nottinghamshire', grid reference and parish protected.