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Gold head-dress pin or bodkin
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Buckinghamshire County Museum, Ros Tyrrell, 2012-04-12 10:26:54
Title
Gold head-dress pin or bodkin
Description
English: A slightly bent gold pin. The shaft is a flattish oval in section and tapers from 3.14mm to 1.49mm at the point. The broad end is finished with a simple knop. Below this is a round hole 1.5mm in diameter and an oblong hole 8.50mm long by 1.10mm. 5.12mm further down is a slightly smudged makers mark, stamped onto the metal, in the form of two letters possibly G over W. The pin is otherwise undecorated.

This type of headdress pin, (sometimes referred to as a bodkin because of the ribbon threading potential of the oblong hole) dates to the seventeenth century. A similar example is in the collections of Norfolk Museums (Margeson 1993, 9, Plate III). 2005T326 [IOW-305174] has a similar knop terminal. See also in silver 2006T168 [BUC-13CF06], 2006T462 [BUC-6A6E01] & 2006t478 [BUC-6C1F60], all from Bucks. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Buckinghamshire
Date between 1600 and 1700
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 497830
Old ref: BUC-591475
Filename: DSCN4552.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/377247
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/377247/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/497830
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