Pins are straight pieces of metal with a pointed end.  Woolley lists 8 types of pins based on their style.  Woolley's type 1 are straight pins, pierced or unpierced with a ball head of material other than metal.  Woolley's type 2 has a knobby head of metal.  Type 3 is a pin with a domed head of metal.  Type 4 has a rolled head.  Type 5 has a flattened and rolled head to hold feathers, and is listed as a hairpin in our typology.  Type 6 has anthro/zoomorphic figures on the head.  Type 7 has a bent head sometimes with stone beads at the end.  Type 8 has a rounded head.  Pierced pins may have been used to hang toggles or cylinder seals.  Pins are mixed between style and period.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
8016 (none) B16765 (none) Copper pin. WIth ball head of carnelian and gold. Shaft broken and much of it missing. [type] V
15412 (none) 1935,0113.450 (none) Copper pin. Straight type. Lapis lazuli ball head with gold cap. Type but slender through out.
10702 (none) 1935,0113.439 (none) Bone Pin Rounded in section Perforated top Broken and tip missing [drawing] E
11467A (none) 1935,0113.401 (none) Copper objects. (A) a copper pin, bent in half. (B) [B-D] 3 finger rings of plain copper wire.
(none) (none) 1935,0112.28 (none) (none)
19190 (none) 1935,0112.27 (none) Copper pin. Type 6. [drawing] head thus.
(none) (none) 1933,1013.54 (none) (none)
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
(none) (none) 1933,1013.51 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1933,1013.49 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1932,1008.25 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1931,1010.306 (none) (none)
17027 (none) 1931,1010.280 (none) Hair (?) pin. Copper. Plain type, circular in section. [drawing 1:2]
16364 (none) 1931,1010.277 (none) Bronze Pin. With hooked top. Broken in 2 places. [drawing 1:1]
17431 (none) 1931,1010.262 (none) Pin head [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16286H (none) 1931,1010.235 (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
16286I (none) 1931,1010.235 (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
17119 (none) 1931,1010.149 (none) Pin of black chert (?) [drawing 1:1]
14484 (none) 1930,1213.532 (none) Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1]
14290 (none) 1930,1213.489 (none) Copper chisel. Minute. Sq. in section. Type VII R. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) 1930,1213.479 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.77 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.76 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.75 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.74 (none) (none)

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