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)
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.
11985 (none) 1929,1017.601 (none) Copper Pin. With small lapis ball head (broken into 4 bits) Type V, D.
11997 (none) 1929,1017.566 (none) Copper Pin. Type II.
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).
12028 (none) 1929,1017.567 (none) Copper Pin. Type II.
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.
12045 (none) 1929,1017.562 (none) Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis capped with silver (stem & head broken) Type VI, B.
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.
12069C (none) 1929,1017.293 (none) Group: (A) Beads. lapis lazuli double conoids; silver double conoids. (B) Cockle shell (broken) containing green paint. (C) Copper pin: hopeless condition.
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.
12077C (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Silver Pin lapis ball head. (B) Beads: long lapis lentoids & silver, small lapis; and small lapis double conoids. (for stringing see Field Note) (C) Shell head of pin. Truncated cone shape, incised decoration. [drawing of head]
12084A (none) 1929,1017.583 (none) Group (A) Copper pin: elongated thin top. [type] I (B) Cylinder seal: shell. Bird-headed men & animals. [additional drawing, possibly map of excavation areas] [drawing]
12090 (none) 1929,1017.588 (none) Copper Pin. Type II.
12097 (none) 1929,1017.592 (none) Copper Pin. Elongated head. Tip missing.
12128A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Pins. [A] Silver and [B]copper. Lapis ball head on each. Tip of copper pin missing. [Type] V.
12142 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Plain type. Circular in section.
12171 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Circular in section. Broken. [Type] V.
12229 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Curled headed type: perforated. No trace of ball head. Type VI. C. (without ball head).
12235 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Straight type. Circular in section. [Type] V.

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