Finds tray: Early Bronze Age pin

This is a unique early Bronze Age pin, made from the first phalanx (or toe-bone) of a golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). It is the only example ever found in a Bronze Age funerary context in England, with only one other similar find recovered from a child’s burial in Scotland. This pin was also associated with the cremated remains of a child, found during excavations by Cotswold Archaeology in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in advance of the construction of the A40 Science Transit Park & Ride. The burial had been placed in a shallow pit alongside the charcoal from the funeral pyre. No evidence of a funeral urn was identified, so it is probable that the remains were kept in some sort of organi