Early Medieval (400AD - 1099AD)
Early Christians
Crescent headed stick pin
- Period:
- Early Medieval
- Description:
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This beautiful object with it's distinctive head does not have any immediate parallels although similar pins made out of bone are known from the Western Isles. Used to hold a cloak or shawl, it could have been worn by either a man or a woman. It is a good example of the type of high status jewelery worn by the inhabitants of seventh centtury Whithorn.
A masive stick pin with a crescentic or axe-shaped head. The square section shank at the head becomes octagonal below the mid-point.
- Materials/Media:
- bronze, copper alloy
- Dimensions:
- length 175mm
- Source:
- The Whithorn Trust
- Accession number:
- WIWMS Whit BZ14.7
- Digital Number:
- WTAC006a; WTAC006b
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
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