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 Camberley[?],  Surrey.
Site: England, Kent, Ramsgate, St. Laurence College (3), found in digging foundation for Biology Laboratory, March 1929: for details see publications
Discovery context: building work 
Parish: Ramsgate
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: TR, 38, 65
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 265.5
Width (mm): See description
Thickness (mm): See description
Weight (g): 54
Patina: fairly heavy + green, but slightly corroded
Other: Apologies for transcription errors, was written with a blunt square nib and letters tightly together., The previous card's drawings may in fact be an extension of the drawings on this card.
Associations: See remarks
Description: Width as: "Head 16 mm; neck above swelling, 6 mm; swelling [?], 8.7 mm, Thickness as: "shank, 5.5 mm; tip, 3.5 mm", Horizontal perforation through swollen neck; [...] Ornament
Publications: Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1942, p.  28, fig. 2,3
Remarks: Two other pins (1,2); pottery urn of Deverel (Late Bronze Age) type; […] teeth, + […] frg. of Bos Cougiforus [?] oweing teeth of mudllhorse […];  […] 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