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 (+ Gerritions [] of find),  now (1939) Headmaster, Te Country School, Camberley. 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: 1929
Length (mm): 251.5
Width (mm): Head  19.5;  neck above swellling, 7; swelling, 10.2; shank, 6.5; tip, 4.6 where broken.
Weight (g): 58
Patina: Fairly wavy and even, but slightly corroded.
Composition: (tip boken).
Other: Multi-part, hand-drawn illustration showing details of engraved ornament., At least 3 different handwriting styles and kinds of ink, especially under Collections and Grid Reference.,  ,
Associations: Two other pins (1, 3); pottery urn of Deverl (Late Bronze Age) type; bones, teeth, thorncore frag. of Bos longitous Owen, kok [] of small horse; mussel shells.  Not a cremation burial, but when ws intact in ground, with all three pins inside it (animal bones, , not).  The excavation was apparently a store-hole, belonging to a settlement site.
Description: Horizontal perforation through swollen neck:,  engraved ornament.
Publications: Proc. Prehist. Soc.,,     1942, p. 28, fig. 2,2.
Remarks: LOWER LEFT COLUMN:, "Picardy" type., LOWER RIGHT CORNER:  [in pencil], C1