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The Recent Discovery of Gold Pins in the Ridgeway Gold Pommel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Joan J. Taylor
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Summary

Seven gold pins noticed recently in place in the Ridgeway gold pommel form the only British example of exclusively functional gold pins dated to the Wessex period. The Hameldon Down pommel repair, although functional was also decorative. A Breton parallel from La-Garenne, Morbihan, is the only other instance of purely functional pin use and still has two pins in situ with their heads hidden by the continuous decoration of the piece. The Ridgeway pommel's shape and associations suggest that, like La-Garenne, it is late in the pin typology. Both may be from contemporary graves, which if not transitional Wessex I/ Wessex II, might be early Wessex II.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , September 1970 , pp. 216 - 221
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1970

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