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finds > finds type > small finds > jewellery > pin

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pin  

Definition

  • One of the simplest artifacts, consisting of a narrow metal or bone shaft with a point at one end and usually some sort of decorative head at the other. Ist function was to secure garments (ancestral to the fibula), or, sometimes, the hair.

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Source

  • Kipfer, B. A. Dictionary of Artifacts 2007. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.p. 241

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/pin/4.128

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