The Portable Antiquities Scheme
POST MEDIEVAL PIN
Unknown artist
Silver head-dress pin of rectangular section, complete but bent into a tight T-shape. The terminal is a thistle with a ?crown on top, the ?crown pierced with a circular hole. Below are 2 rectangular slots with an engraved rosette between 2 pairs of transverse grooves. Below this the pin has bevelled edges and some geometric zigzag triangle engraving. Front and back are decorated identically. Dutch, early C17.
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