English: A complete cast copper alloy pin (length: 148mm; diameter of head: 11.8mm; diameter at end of shank: 3.9mm; weight: 23.72g). This example has close parallels with Cool's Group 6, as illustrated in her article 'Roman Metal Hair Pins from Southern Britain' in Archaeological Journal Volume 147, 1990, pages 157 & 158, fig 5, ref nos 3 & 8. These 'button and cordon head' types have button-shaped knob heads and two, or occasionally three or four, grooves cut into the top of the shank to produce one or more cordons. This example has approximately ten of these grooves, which become more worn and simply decorated the further down the shank they appear. The top cordon is decorated with small straight incised notches/ lines, while the cordon underneath has slanted incised lines around the circumference of the shank. The button head does not appear to be decorated. The shank tapers to a point at the end. Cool states that the diameter of the head is generally two or three times that of the top of the shank but smaller ones do occur. Group 6 dates to the second half of the first century and the early second, with similar examples found at Verulamium, Gadebridge Park, London and Enfield. The Group's distribution is mainly concentrated in eastern England and relatively few reach the west (page 157).

The evidence for how these pins were worn comes from two sources - depictions in works of art and the positions of pins on skeletons in graves where deceased were buried wearing their paersonal ornaments.