Disc-headed Linked Dress Pin
Description
Silver gilt disc-headed pin set with a single garnet. Expanded disc head, which has one ragged edge, supports a setting composed of a gilded/gold collet containing a red glass cabochon within a broad collar. This is made up an inner strand of beaded wire surrounding the central cell which is flanked by three strands of S and Z twisted wire. Pin shank is stout, marginally hipped and slightly bent. The back is plain with a central piercing presumably to attach the setting with a rivet seated beneath the glass cabochon. One of a pair of linked pins with APSB 20.
Object number
NOLMS:2006.006
Object
DRESS PIN
Production date
600 - 750
Period
Early Medieval / Early Anglo-Saxon
Material
Silver
Garnet
Garnet
Technique
Gilt
Cast
Cast
Dimensions
Length: 55.5mm
Width: 12mm
Weight: 3.15g
Width: 12mm
Weight: 3.15g
Provenance
APPLEBY
Find spot
Low Santon Farm (Santon)
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