Object: PIN
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: [check-mark in pencil]  British Museum.  50.7-25.4
Site: GREATER LONDON,  In Thames at Wandsworth,  Dredged from the THAMES opposite the mouth of the Wande: i.e. in Wandsworth Reach just above Wandsworth Bridge, 1854.
Discovery context: river,dredged
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ    25     74
Year of discovery: 1854
Length (mm): 197.5
Width (mm): Head, 16; neck above swellling, 5.5; swelling, 8; shankd 4.5/5; tip, 2.5
Surface: Somewhat corrode but fairlly heavy and even.
Other: Beautiful, detailed, 2-part hand drawing,showing engraving., Site information written over white-out label., At least 3 different kinds of handwriting and ink/pencil.,  ,
Associations: At sametime (Arch J. ix, 7-8) were dredged up a leafshaped sword-blade (Evans, 382), socketed (crv) spearhead (in 31o6), and palstave;  it was thin, and afterward by Evans (loc cit. & list, 465, no. 26), assumed that this was a hoard, but G. F. Lawrence has shown (Arch.J. lxxxvi (1939), 90-1) what a variety of objects have been dredged up at this place, and Reginald Smith was certainly right (Guide, loc cit) to disregard this claim to association.
Description: Horizontal perforation through swollen neck:  engraved ornament.
Publications: Archaeological Journal ix, 7-8; Evans, Anct. Bze Impts, 368m Fug, 454l  B.M. Bronze Age Guide (1920), 56-7, Fig. 48 top;*  Proc. Prehist. Soc. 1942, p 28,* fig. 2,5., *Shown here with tip straightened.,  actually it is still cuved as in Arch. J. ix and Evans.
Remarks: LOWER LEFT COLUMN:, 'Picardy' type:, [in pencil]:,  BOTTOM OF CENTER COLUMN:,    OK, but now broken, LOWER RIGHT CORNER:,  C  1