Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dover Corporation Museum
Site: England,Kent,St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe,Found about 18" down in a chalky soil which had long previously been cultivated without yielding anything of archaeological interest: September 1938.
Parish: St. Margaret's-at-cliffe
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1938
Length (mm): 166
Width (mm): 19
Patina: Slightly corroded, but fairly heavy and even.
Other: Width: Head 19mm; neck above swelling 4mm; swelling 9mm; shank 4mm; tip 3mm
Associations: None
Description: Horizontal perforation through swollen neck. Engraved ornament.
Publications: Dover Museum 7th Annual Report, 1938, 3 (mention only),Proc. Prehistoric Soc., 1942, p. 28, fig. 2,4
Remarks: 'Picardy' type.