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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