Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, British Museum, ).1964.12-1.152 (old reg #) .26,(Ex-Wellcome Collection),On loan to Norwich Castle Museum
Site: England,Norfolk,Boughton,Boughton Fen,Found while 'cutting fuel' in 1864.
Parish: Boughton
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 70 01
Year of discovery: 1864
Length (mm): 428
Width (mm): 181
Thickness (mm): 3
Surface: Dull dark brown and gold surface; scattered pocking; hoop little contorted - poss damage; shank twisted - prob. original; tip of point missing in antiquity; fawn (?) soil in pocks and punchmarks.
Associations: Hoard
Description: Dimensions: Length: 427.5mm; Width: 181mm; max th. outer flange 3.2mm; max th. inner flange 2.5mm; max th. shank 5.5mm; width of band. 9.2-11.2mm,Elliptical hoop with small flanges at inner and outer edge; flanges nicked all round with closely packed punchmarks, generally a little oblique, and a little irregularly spaced; interior of hoop decorated on both faces with chevrons; area at head of stem with different motif on either face; stem d-circular - slight elliptical section; twisting down length indicated by a seam line - possible casting flash trace; traces of c.f. also round outside of hoop, but parts there covered by punchmarks; latter poss. also on inside.
Remarks: SN April 78; PI(O); DF(S); AFI