Product description
This pair of early medieval robe pins with connecting chain is modeled on the Anglo-Saxon Trumpington pins: a pair of gold pins with garnet inlay from the 7th century, found together with a gold cross in the grave of a young Anglo-Saxon noblewoman at Trumpington, near Cambridge. The originals are on display at the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
The pins were probably used to secure a veil or fine robe, connected by a short gold chain — the precious material indicates an aristocratic or even royal status of the deceased. The tomb, dated between 650 and 680, is one of the earliest known Christian burials in Britain: despite rich, almost pagan grave goods, the gold cross indicates an early conversion to Christianity, shortly after Augustine of Canterbury's missionary journey in 597.
A meaningful pair of pins for those who want to depict the early Anglo-Saxon nobility.
