Pins
This category includes straight objects used for fastening cloth.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9817 | (none) | 1928,1010.270 | (none) | Copper Pin Perforated below head to admit a gold ring, 1 1/2 coils of gold wire are wound round the gold ring in one place [drawing] Type IX |
| 9795 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain ball head. (broken) Type V |
| 9516 | (none) | (none) | B16944 | Copper pin Plain head Broken and in bad condition Type IX | |
| 9535 | (none) | (none) | B16916 | Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I | |
| 9576 | (none) | (none) | B17318 | Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I |
| 9891 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Found on shoulder [drawing] 1:2 Type I |
| 9640 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head in poor condition Type I |
| 9577 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I |
| 9648 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I |
| 9673 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I |
| 9928 | (none) | 1928,1010.336 | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I | |
| 9953 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I |
| 9892 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain tang head [drawing] Type I |
| 9522 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin plain tang head, broken Type I |
| 9643 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Plain thickened head (point broken) Type IX |
| 9224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Broken in 2 pieces [type] IX |
| 10707 | (none) | 1928,1010.279 | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Elongated knob head Broken in 3 pieces Type I | |
| 10384 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Rounded in section Elongated knob head Type I |
| 10385 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Rounded in section Elongated knob head Type I |
| 9594 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Rounded in section Heavy type Elongated nob head Tip bent Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] Type I |
| 9043 | (none) | (none) | B17481 | Copper pin Rounded in section Lapis ring bead top Tip missing [drawing] | |
| 8470 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section perforated top through which a copper ring is passed Flat top [drawing] |
| 9098 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Short thickened head Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] |
| 9227 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Thickened top [drawing] |
| 10185 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin Rounded in section Type IX |
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