- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze pin
- Long description
- Gilt copper-alloy pin with spherical head. [CG [Excav. PR] 12/06/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Greater London City of London EC2 London Wall Gooch and Cousens wool warehouse
- Cultural groups
- European
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- 1866
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884, uncertain Found unentered: 18/03/2004
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Gilded
- Dimensions
- Width: max 3 mm, Length: max 68 mm, Weight 1 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.541
- Research and responses
Note that the 1519 does not relate to Blue 1519 which has a different description and has been matched to another entry. The other numbers are also unexplained and do not appear on the 'new' mounting given when the pins were presumably first accessioned at the PRM [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers monitored excavations happening at London Wall between October and December 1866. He published two papers on this in 1867. His work was also heavily referenced in a 1906 paper by Norman and Reader. Full references: Lane Fox, A. 1867a. ‘On objects of the Roman period found at great depth in the vicinity of the old London Wall’ Archaeological Journal 24:61-64; Lane Fox, A. 1867b. ‘A description of certain piles found near London Wall and Southwark, possibly the remains of pile buildings.’ Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 5:71-83; Norman, P. and Reader, F.W. 1906. ‘Recent discoveries in connection with Roman London.’ Archaeologia 60:169-250 [CB 8/12/2009]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A.H. 1867. Objects found at great depth in the vicinity of the old London Wall. Archaeological Journal 24: 61-64. [Dan Hicks 29/07/2013] Lane-Fox, A.H. 1867. A description of certain piles found near London Wall and Southwark, possibly the remains of Pile Buildings. Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 5: lxxi-lxxxiii. [Dan Hicks 29/07/2013]
1884.140.541
Bronze pin
On display
1884.140.541
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