May Queen Pin

“Glass paste and gilt brass.”

• Rarity: Epic
• Metal: Gold
• Kind: Jewellery and dress fittings
• Set: The Village Green

Where to find the May Queen Pin

The May Queen Pin is one of the epic artefacts buried in FieldHunters, a free online metal detecting game. Hunters sweep a shared field with a metal detector, follow the signal and dig — and epic pieces like this one are among the rarest things that come out of the ground. There is no way to buy it: it has to be dug up.

The The Village Green set

Maypoles, cricket, and centuries of lost change.

The pieces of this set:

• Bail Ferrule · Common
• Bent Sixpence · Uncommon
• Fair Day Button · Common
• Love Token · Rare
• May Queen Pin · Epic
• Maypole Spike · Common
• Parish Mace Finial · Legendary
• Tin Whistle · Uncommon

About jewellery and dress fittings

Brooches, fibulae, pendants, torcs and amulets were both fashion and function: they fastened clothes, showed status and, often, were believed to protect the wearer. The torc, a rigid twisted neck ring, was a mark of high rank among Iron Age peoples. Fibulae — ancient safety-pin brooches — changed style so often that archaeologists use them to date the sites they are found on.

More epic artefacts

• Merchant Mark Ring
• Mermaid Brooch
• Nativity Pendant
• Opera Glass Focus Ring
• Pattern-Weld Billet
• Pectoral of Horus

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