Hairpin
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. The size and sturdy shape of this hairpin suggest it was used for hairstyles pinned close to the head.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 853/1989/135
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit?
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- hairpin
- Simple Name
- pin
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
- Production Year Low
- 150
- Production Year High
- 410
