Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 1954  10-2, C.E. Baldwin, Esq., M.A. in 1929 Senior Science Master at St. Lawrence College (+ eyewitness of find), now (1939, Headmaster, the County School, Caiberley [?],  Surrey.
Site: England, Kent, Ramsgate, St. Lawrence College (2), found in digging foundations for Biology Laboratory, March 1929: for details see publication.
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Ramsgate
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TR, 38, 65
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 323
Width (mm): See description
Thickness (mm): See description
Weight (g): 73.28
Patina: fairly heavy and even, wholly corroded
Other: Apologies for transcription errors, it was written with a blunt, square-tipped pen and marginally legible.
Associations: See remarks
Description: Width as: "head, 16 mm; neck above swelling, 7.4 mm; swelling, 9.5 mm."  Thickness as: "shank, 6.1 mm; tip, 3 mm where broken.  Tip broken., Horizontal perforation through swollen neck: no ornament
Publications: Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1942, p. 28, fig. 2,1
Remarks: Associations: Two other pins (2,3); pottery urn of Deverel (Late Bronze Age) type; bowl, teeth, + […] frg. of Bos Cougifrous [?] oweing teeth of small horse;  […] shells.  Not a cremation burial, but was intact in ground, with all three pins inside it (animal bones, […] […]) The excavation was apparently a store-hole, belonging to a settlement site.  ‘Picardy’ type