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)
12171 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Circular in section. Broken. [Type] V.
12142 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Plain type. Circular in section.
12235 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis ball head. Straight type. Circular in section. [Type] V.
12248 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Lapis lazuli ball head. [Type] V.
7880 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Mushroom-shaped head, round shaft, pointed. [drawing 1:1]
11532 30-12-383 (none) B18102 Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I.
12333 (none) 1929,1017.597 (none) Copper Pin. Plain straight type.
11707 30-12-366 (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain tang head.
11224 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain tang head. Type I.
11226 (none) (none) B17492 Copper pin. Plain tang head. Type I.
11433 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Plain tang head. [Type] I.
11421 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain, with spike head.
11502 30-12-377 (none) B18096 Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX.
8026 (none) (none) B17461 Copper pin. Point missing. The shaft widens above and is pierced by a small hole; then it thins down and bends over and ends in a large ball head (the material perhaps a paste) originally capped with silver which has now almost all gone. [drawing 1:1]
8742 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Ribbed silver ball head. Rounded in section - broken in 4 pieces. [drawing] [type] V
8665 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Round section, stem thickening towards head and ending in a short tang. [type] I
8750 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded end thick in section. [drawing] [type] I
8795 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section [Type] IX
8760 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V
9229 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Rounded in section. Thickened head. [drawing]
7970 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Similar in type to U.7969. Broken across middle. [type] I
11125 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Square in section. With carnelian ball head with a gold cap below. Tip missing. [Type] V
8671 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Stem circular in section, thickening to head. In bad condition.
8629 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Stem thickened and pierced, then bent over the ball head [drawing] [Type] VI
12700 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Straight with small flattened lapis double conoid bead head. [Type] IV.

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