Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pump Room, Bath.
Site: England.,Somerset.,Batheaston or S'. Catherine.,In making pipe-line from Monkswood Reservoir.,1894.
Parish: Batheaston
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1894
Length (mm): 42
Width (mm): DIA: 38
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 6
Composition: Bronze.
Other: 1 side profile drawing of pin on reverse.,Head of pin is almost completely circular, appears to have angled edges forming a roughly diamond-shaped cross section?,Does not appear to be twisted or decorated.,Shank almost entirely missing except for stump connected to head.
Associations: Hoard. 3 Sickles. bronze Torques, bracelets, 2 pins, 1 looped spearhead, ferrules, 1 awl, 3 knives, etc.
Publications: Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiq. F.C. viii. 147-150.,Archaeologia. LXXI pp. 138-9. PL XI.,Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd S. XV. pp. 358-60.,Arch. Cambr. Dec. 1941. p160 (Fox).