Object: PIN
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: BRISTOL MUSEUM E1786
Site: AVON (SOMERSET), TIMSBURY, WALLMEAD, Barrow G1, [CAMERTON]
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Wallmead
County: Somerset
Country: England
Grid reference: ST 67 59
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 107.0
Width (mm): d. head 13.5 - 14.2
Edge (mm): max d. of top perf. 3.8
Thickness (mm): d. top of shank 6.5
Weight (g): 12.2
Surface: brown shiny p. over most; few spots of lumpy corr. and peckings to light green - including one scarring head;
Associations: Context: 2a GRAVE
Description: Typology: circular tapered shank expands at top to almost flat underside of head separated from dome by good angle; slight bend in shank poss. orig. ; in profile head tilted slightly forward on shank,  Manufacture: edges of both perforations crisp, cast in with hollow of head; possibly a little less hollow at rear than front of head; 24 grooves encircling shank and enter underside of head - ribs between with rounded profiles - poss. all cast; fringe motif of 3 triangles at base; groove on head just above bottom angle with 3 others bordering bands of alternate diagonals,  Condition: much differential wear - decoration v. worn on top of head - top 2 bands, also worst on rear face of head, including lowest band; tip virt. intact
Publications: Gerloff 1975, 104 no. 175
Remarks: Labels/Markings Red ink: E1786, Sub Inf via Colin Shell, Camb. Univ.