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)
11553 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type I (new)
11597C (none) (none) (none) Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V.
11707 30-12-366 (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain tang head.
11710A 30-12-390 (none) B18109 Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint.
11726 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin with plain lapis ball head capped with gold.
11775 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B.
11826A (none) (none) (none) Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl).
11835 (none) (none) (none) [A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced.
11842C (none) (none) (none) Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head.
11890 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin(?) Fragment of, with round the stem a band of electrum to which is fastened a ring of flat beaded electrum. [Drawing 1:1]
11931A (none) (none) (none) [A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930)
11948 30-12-491 (none) (none) Copper Pin. With striated lapis ball head capped with gold (the stem broken into 5 bits)
11953 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin. With lapis ball head (stem broken). [Type] V.
11963 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin. Triangular head. [drawing 1:1]
11970A (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper Pin. Type VI B. With it a [B] cylinder seal of green calcite(?) much decayed: 2 registers with seated figures, archaic.
12008A (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. [A] Type II. [B] a second, with lapis head (broken) Type V. [C] a third, Type II (broken) (this not certainly from the grave).
12037 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Broken & tip missing. [Type] V.
12044 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis (stem broken) Type VI, B.
12054 30-12-380 (none) (none) Copper Pin Plain head.
12056C (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group: [A.1-.2] (A) 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. (B) Lapis Lazuli beads: double conoids; (C) Copper Pin, plain head. (broken); [D-F] (D) 3 cockle shells: black & green paint.
12057A (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group: (A) Copper Pin bent head, Type VI, A. (B) Beads: Lapis lazuli double conoids and some silver; (C) cockle shell with paint; (D)[D.1-.2] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils.
12063C (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) 17 large lapis double conoid BEADS (B) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed, 2 registers. Seated deity. Presentation. (C) Copper Pin, tip missing, broken. [Drawing of head]
12065B (none) (none) (none) Group. (A) Silver earring, 2 1/2 coils; (B) Silver pin, lapis ball head. Tip bent and end missing. (C) Beads; lapis double conoids.
12070B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Beads. lapis lazuli ovoids and silver. (B) Copper pin with rounded copper head, badly smashed.
12074B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Beads: lapis lazuli double conoids (B) Copper pin, rounded head; badly broken.

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