Celtic La Tene Spiral Pin

Spiral-headed pin from the Bronze Age.

Here you can buy a so-called spiral-headed pin from the Bronze Age, an authentic dress pin based on a historical find.

This Bronze Age garment pin with a head twisted into a spiral was found in a woman's grave in Halle, in the district of Trotha, and dates from the early Iron Age of Thuringian culture, from the second half of the 6th century BC.

The pin comes from the burial of a 25- to 30-year-old woman, whose body was laid to rest in a lateral sleeping position in the grave. Her rich bronze jewellery consisted of four arm rings and two finger rings, earrings, a hair pin and two garment pins, a belt hook and two necklaces, indicating that she was a woman of high standing. 

Link to the original spiral-headed pin...

The garment pin is available in brass or genuine silver-plated and measures 15 x 3 cm.

This garment pin is made of sturdy 1.6 mm thick brass wire and can be used not only to fasten Bronze Age women's clothing when worn in pairs, but also to fasten a light cloak.

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The spiral-headed pin is a typical Central European dress pin from the Early to Middle Bronze Age (approx. 2200–1500 BC). It was most widespread in southern Germany, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt, Austria, Switzerland and Bohemia, especially in the burial grounds and settlement contexts of the Alpine and Danube regions.

In these regions, it was regularly found in women's graves, but also proportionally in men's graves, often worn in pairs, for example as part of clothing fastenings on the shoulders or on cloaks.

Hoard finds also show that spiral-headed pins were sometimes collected as objects of value or status. In Northern Europe, Scandinavia and Western Central Europe, they appear only sporadically, while in Eastern Europe and the Carpathian region, regional variants or transitional types are predominantly found.

With the transition to the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, spiral-headed pins largely disappeared from regular attire and then mostly appeared only as old pieces or deliberately preserved status objects, as in the grave at Halle-Trotha.