A Comparative Compositional Study of 7th- to 11th-Century Copper-Alloy Pins from Sedgeford, England, and Domburg, the Netherlands
Marcus Roxburgh|Bertil van Os
EARLY MEDIEVAL PINS are found in large quantities on both sides of the North Sea and English Channel, as a result one few artefact types that can facilitate exploration cross-cultural contacts terms style, material manufacture. This paper presents results analyses two contemporary groups copper-alloy pins dating from 7th to 11th centuries using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. One group considered here was recovered an excavated Anglo-Saxon settlement at Sedgeford (Norfolk), while other derives coastal Domburg (Zeeland, Netherlands). We argue here, basis our results, pin production may have been focused around major mercantile, royal or ecclesiastical centres, it also localised materials methods, suggesting potentially different trajectories each region for development control specialist production.
Medieval Archaeology|Leiden Repository (Leiden University)