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RING-HEADED PIN (TYA 283: 11)
Type: Ring-headed pin, bronze.
Use: Jewel, clip for men's robe.
Site: Raisio, Ihala, Siiri cremation cemetery I.
Period: Viking Age
Dating: 800-1025 A.D.
Size: Length 110 mm, diameter of shaft 4.4 mm.
Photographer: Arto Korhonen.
Besides the pennannular brooches, the ring-headed pins were commonly used in the Viking Age to fasten a man´s cloak. They were known in the British Isles, Northern Europe, Baltic countries and Western Russia. Clearly the Vikings were spreading this artefact form.
Unlike this example, the ring-headed pins were often quite large, even 30 - 40 cm long. In Laitila (SW Finland) a large ring-headed pin made of silver has been found. It is possibly of Irish origin.
Inhumation burials show us that the cloak was commonly fastened on the rigtht side, beloe the arm.
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Coordinates: x=100-200, y=0-200, r=28-30/38-40, 3rd layer.
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