Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Stevenson, Mrs. J. - privatae,4 Dyers Lane, Putney, London, SW15
Site: England,Greater London,River Thames Foreshore (Southern),Barnes,Found by Mrs. Stevenson using a metal detector in middle of 1978 halfway between the mouth of the Beverley Brook and the first flight of steps down to the foreshore (upstream),c. Kuboch, 1977, PBF XIII.3 - V. sim. example from Mainz.
Discovery context: river, metal detector
Parish: Barnes
District: Richmond upon Thames
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 235 763
Year of discovery: 1978
Length (mm): 40.8
Width (mm): 27.4
Weight (g): 6.95
Surface: Varied dry surfaces - pale greens - dull browns, etc.; few flecks of gold - recent rubbing; some small pock holes; poss. small frag. of p. - dark brown, deteriorating; material between arm coils - prob. corr. products + soil?
Description: Dimensions: EL 40.8mm; Whead 27.4; EL shank 31.7; W shank (near break) 4.2; B shank (near break) 3.6; max B. shank 4.5; B spiral 2.2-2.6; Wt. 6.95 g,Typology: sub-rectangular shank, becoming more angular towards top and broadening to triangular junction with flattish faces & rounded top in centre; towards either arm top is flattened producing thinning to thin-rectangular arms.,Manufacture: slight lips flanking corners of either arm from forging base of intact arm sl. skew - prob. orig. as arm still in correct line.,Condition: shank and arm break anc. - pale green corr. covered; complete arm may originally have been more tightly coiled - sitting in recess at junction with shank; broken stump arm markedly twisted - dam.? from breakage?,Attached Material: small trace orange-brown staining.
Remarks: PIF; DF(S); SI; CI; Rec.: Sn Jan. 79; Source: Sb. A.; Sub. Inf. N.M. Ferrant, 10 Oct. 78