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Pin: GR.4062.1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

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Description

Pin head

Measurements and weight

Height: 0.053 m
Width: 0.03 m

Relative size of this object

3 cm5.3 cm1 mm What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1923)

Dating

-0700 BC - -0601 BC

Identification numbers

Accession number: GR.4062.1923
Primary reference Number: 88425
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 May 2022 Last processed: Monday 25 July 2022

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Pin" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/88425 Accessed: 2023-06-04 17:34:43

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/88425 |title=Pin |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 17:34:43|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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