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Anglo-scandinavian coppergate unfinished needles for use as dress making pins 10thC
Anglo-scandinavian coppergate unfinished needles for use as dress making pins 10thC
Anglo-scandinavian coppergate unfinished needles for use as dress making pins 10thC
Anglo-scandinavian coppergate unfinished needles for use as dress making pins 10thC

Anglo-scandinavian coppergate unfinished needles for use as dress making pins 10thC

a set of 15 hand forged steel dress pins, 5cm long cold drawn steel with point. based on the unfinished needles recovered from the late Anglo-Scandinavian levels at Coppergate in York, 9-10thc, finds; 2682 and 2689, as no finds of dress making pins exist from the Anglo-Saxon or Viking period these unfinished needles are presented here as a possible option for use as dress making pins. Made in Sheffield England by Daegrad Tools