Gold Hairpin

“Head shaped as a hand.”

• Rarity: Epic
• Metal: Gold
• Kind: Jewellery and dress fittings
• Set: The Roman Bath House

Where to find the Gold Hairpin

The Gold Hairpin 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 Roman Bath House set

Steam, oil, gossip — and everything that slipped between the tiles.

The pieces of this set:

• Bath House Ring · Uncommon
• Bath Tessera · Common
• Empress Intaglio · Legendary
• Gold Hairpin · Epic
• Mirror Handle · Uncommon
• Oil Flask Mouth · Common
• Silver Earring · Rare
• Strigil Fragment · Common

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.

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• Gold Posy Ring
• Gold Spectacles Bridge
• Gold Star Ornament
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