Copper-alloy, 6.51 grams, 99.59 mm. 5th-6th century AD. A dress pin comprising a pointed shaft rising to a bifurcated section, flattened and involuted to form a pair of opposed scrolls. Reference: West. S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998 p.214 fig.96(6) and Webster, L. & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, p.98 item 69(j, k). Extremely fine condition. Provenance: found Lincolnshire, England.