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)
14425A 98-9-75 (none) (none) Copper fibula. Hoop spiral. Type 3. [drawing 1:1]
14473A (none) (none) (none) Gold pin. Lapis lazuli ball head with gold caps. Type V.
14498 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin(?). One end sharply pointed, the haft round in section, the other end slightly pointed.
14952 30-12-415 (none) (none) Copper pin. Straight and pointed at each end.
15149A 30-12-473 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 copper pins. One has lapis lazuli ball head. Broken.
16371 31-43-127 (none) (none) Pins(?). Ivory. 10 in all. Tips mostly missing. [drawing]
16395 (none) (none) (none) Bone pin(?) Pointed top. Stem rectangular in section decorated on all four faces with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1]
16635 (none) (none) (none) Bone pin. Square section top-rounded at bottom. Incised decoration on upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1]
16636 (none) (none) (none) Bone Pin. Broken in 3 pieces. Oval in section. Upper portion of stem perforated for suspension, 3 incised grooves decorate upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1]
17048 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Tip missing. [drawing 1:1]
17406 31-43-228 (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Carved head. Tip missing. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1]
17422 31-43-564 (none) (none) Kohl? Pin. Iron. Stem circular in section. Tip missing. [drawing]
17631 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
17632 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Shell. [drawing 1:1]
17800C (none) (none) (none) Group: From one grave. (A) Gold fillet, a twisted ribbon: very thin, poor metal. (B) Beads: Small carnelian balls and very small gold balls, fluted. (C) Copper pin, straight, with carnelian ball head. (D) Copper finger ring.
17901 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Silver. Type No. V. [Type] RC.1 [drawing 1:1]
17927 (none) (none) (none) Toggle. Bone. [drawing 1:1]
18426 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin.
18461 33-35-79 (none) (none) Copper pin. With decorated head thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing]
18570 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. With small ball head. [drawing]
18739 (none) (none) (none) Bone pin. Tip missing. The head in the form of an open human hand. [drawing 1:1]
18879A (none) (none) (none) Copper pins (two). Type 4. (B) the shorter pin, has the stem flattened and broaded to the head, which is merely bent over, not curled. [drawing]
18897A (none) (none) (none) Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18905 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Type 2.
18907 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Type 8, with copper ring through the hole in the stem.

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