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head dress pin

Accession Number NWHCM : 1989.50

Description

Pin, silver 'head dress' pin of the first quarter of the 17th century; fine engraved decoration and initials A.W.; scoop shaped terminal and rectangular eye

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Decorated head-dress pins with a flattened cross-section and rectangular slot-like eyes are often called ‘bodkins’. These thick needles were used for drawing tapes through hems and were common needlework items. The Aslacton pin encapsulates a social revolution that occurred between the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries in Norfolk. Such pins were used as head-dress ornaments in the Low Countries in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, and their use is attested on a number of contemporary portraits from this date.

Creation Date 1600-1625
Material silver
Measurements 4 mm
Department Archaeology : Norwich Castle Museum
Inscription A.W.

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