Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, 3473,Acquired before 1950 when catalogued
Site: England,Sussex (West),Ferring,Highdown Hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ferring
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 092 043
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 67
Width (mm): 5
Thickness (mm): 1
Surface: Dull olive green patina; 2 or 3 long patches of flaking to pale green dry sur., also edges of head and scattered spots; smaller areas reduced further to dark brown surface including tip.
Associations: 7b. Group
Description: Dimensions: L (bent) 66.8mm; max W. head 4.8; W shank swelling 3.2; B shank swelling 3.2; T head terminal 0.6; d across head 5.8; d. vert. 6.0,Typology: sub. sq. shank sec. - rounded corners and convex faces; becomes more crisp rect. sec. at lead into head which is v. thin and flat; end of roll (inside) has sq. notch in one corner - poss. orig.,Manufacture: head neatly rolled, inside loop scaled well against outer one,Condition: much of loop separate due to break across at eroded point - corr. associated dam.; bend at tip dam. or orig. - no conclusive evid.
Remarks: Labels/Markings: black ink: 3473,PIF; AFI; DF(C); SI; CI; SN Oct. 79; Source MV