Hairpin
- Description
- This hairpin was used by someone living in the Roman town of Isca Dumnoniorum. The amount of hairpins needed for complicated hairstyles resulted in many becoming accidentally lost.
- Accession Loan No.
- 853/1989/127
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Common Name
- hairpin
- Simple Name
- pin
- Full Name
- hairpin
- Dimensions
- whole length 100 mm; whole diameter 5 mm
- Cultural Group
- Roman
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
- Production Year Low
- 175
- Production Year High
- 299
- Family Group
- Material
- copper alloy
- Collector / Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Collection Site Name
- Goldsmith Street
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
