File:Post Medieval silver bodkin (FindID 629189).jpg

English: An incomplete, bent and broken silver bodkin. The bodkin is a rectangular strip with a circular spoon terminal (an earscoop) at one end. It has a flat, rectangular cross section. The incised decoration is the same on both of the flat faces and each element is separated by a transverse collar. The earscoop terminal has a shallow sub-circular bowl below which is a an oval panel with a sub circular aperture.There is then a short section of flat shaft of leaf-shaped outline with incised chevrons on one face and a single chevron with longitudinal line in fill on the other. The next section is a rectangular panel with cross hatched lines on both faces. On one face the lines form a lozenge bisected by a diagonal cross forming four smaller lozenges each containing a dot. The other face has more lines and each of the lozenges contains a short line extending from the lower apex. Following the next transverse collar is a large rectangular aperture, the frame of which is decorated with pairs of short diagonal lines on both faces. The last remaining flat panel before the break is decorated on one face with a stylised lozengiform quatrefoil and an incised pentagonal frame with four short lines inside on the other.

Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700
Dimensions: 46.20 mm x 4.03 mm x 1.76 mm

Weight: 1.80 g

This item is more than 300 years old and composed of more than 10% precious metal, and therefore should be considered Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996.