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Description:		An incomplete copper-alloy hairpin of the Roman period. The surviving part of the pin consists of the head and the upper end of the shaft. The head is of flattened spherical form without decoration. The surviving length of shaft is straight, parallel and decorated with multiple circumferential grooves. It has broken at mid-length with no sign of bending.
Category:		Roman, Pins
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]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-58792.html Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:54:46 GMT Pins  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy hair pin of the Roman period. The head has a domed upper and a conical lower half. The shaft is tapered at the upper end, but approximately parallel for the remainder of its length. The tip is missing.
Category:		Roman, Pins
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]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-58219.html Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:16:29 GMT Pins  

Description:		A complete copper-alloy hair pin of the Roman period. The head consists of three bead and three reel mouldings arranged alternately, the latter finely knurled. The upper half of the shaft is tapered from the bottom reel moulding, and the lower half is parallel with a blunt-pointed tip. The parallel portion of the shaft is bent through approximately ninety degrees midway along its length.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-58210.html Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:46:24 GMT Pins  

Description:		An unusual cast copper-alloy hair pin of the Roman period. The pin has a biconical head, below which there is in turn, a circular collar, a short length of beaded bar and a larger cuboid moulding. The outer cone of the biconical head appears to have had radial grooves or notches, but the detail is unclear due to corrosion. The cuboid moulding has a ring-and-dot motif on each of its four side faces. Below the cuboid moulding there is a short length of shaft with an undercut, but the remainder of the shaft has broken off and is now missing. A generally similar type of pin is recorded as PAS: BERK-A0B836.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-57091.html Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:16:56 GMT Pins  

Description:		A complete copper-alloy hair or dress pin. The head is of plain, solid, near-hemispherical form, but with a large radius between the rounded top and the flat underside. Below the head, the circular-section shaft is initially of uniform diameter, but it then swells to form an elongated barrel shape (to prevent loosening in use) before progressively tapering to a blunt point. There is a rounded bend in the shaft between the underside of the head and the swollen portion, and several wavy bends are also present in the tapered section. The upper bend is probably deliberate, as it occurs on many pins of this type (see similar examples below). Cf. PAS: NMS-CCC8BA and NMS-53EC44
Category:		Roman, Pins
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]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-56966.html Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:47:51 GMT Pins  

Description:		A cast copper alloy disc-headed hair or dress pin of the early Roman period. The head of the pin is discoidal and unusually large in dimensions. The face of the disc is plain and flat, the outside edge is decorated with multiple circumferential grooves. The tapering pin shaft is incomplete and has grooved collar mouldings at the junction of the head. No direct parallel can be found, however, the shape closely resembles examples in the below reference material. In the main, Group 6 pins, with an East of England distribution pattern generically having grooved collars and flat discoidal or bun-shaped heads up to three times the diameter of the shaft.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-56547.html Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:27:26 GMT Pins  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy hair pin of the Roman period. The pin has a biconical head and an incomplete shank of circular cross-section, which has been broken off midway along its length.
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Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-56330.html Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:22:54 GMT Pins  

Description:		An incomplete copper-alloy hair pin of the Roman period. The head is biconical with a spool moulding below. The shaft is of circular cross-section with a right-angled bend close to the head. The pointed end is missing.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-56057.html Sun, 02 May 2021 14:08:47 GMT Pins  

Description:		A hair or dress pin of the Roman period. It has a flattened spherical head, with radial grooving to the top face. The tapered circular-sectioned shank is decorated along its whole surviving length with circumferential grooves creating a 'multiple-disc' effect. The tip of the pin is missing. See also; UKDFD 5159 as generally similar.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/roman/pins/pin-56056.html Sun, 02 May 2021 14:00:38 GMT Pins  

Description:		A hair pin of the Roman period. It has a bun-shaped head and below, the shank has circumferential grooving to form three collars. It is incomplete, the shank having broken near the tip. Nina Crummy (see ref. below) argues that pins of this form are hair pins, rather than dress pins, as their thick shanks contrast with the fine pins used on contemporary brooches. She suggests that pins of this particular form (Type 5) date to the 2nd century AD.
Category:		Roman, Pins
Category:		Pins

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