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)
19100 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. The head in the form of a female head with elaborately dressed hair. The point anciently broken.
19101 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin, part of. Having near the head end the figure of a seated calf.
19102 35-1-479 (none) (none) Copper pin, broken. Having for a head the head of a horned demon or god.
19142 (none) (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 2a.
19143 35-1-498 (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 4.
19144A 35-1-497 (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 8.
19145A 35-1-483 (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 1.
19146 35-1-480 (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 3.
19147A 35-1-499 (none) (none) Copper pins. Type 7.
19206 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. With lapis ball head capped with gold. The stem broken.
19441 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Type 1 with ball head made of shell and balck steatite to imitate banded agate. Stem broken.
20067 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Type 1. With ball head made of two pieces of shell and one of shale stuck together to imitate banded sard.
17911H (none) (none) (none) Group from one burial. (A) Gold frontlet. (B) 3 twisted gold hair ribbons [B and I-J], (C) 2 gold hair rings [C and K], spirally coiled with hollow lunate ends. (D) 2 necklaces [D and L], one of gold ribbed balls between agate lentoids, the other of flat agate lentoids, 1 flat barrel lapis lazuli, 2 carnelian bugles, 1 granite lentoid. 3 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 flat barrel amber. (E) Shell cylinder seal. Obscured. (F) Silver spiral finger ring (G) 2 silver bracelets (H) Silver pin, round with square tang
18879B (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]
18943F (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Gold earring, small lunate type. (B) Silver finger ring, plain wire hoop. (C) Silver hair ring, 2 coils of plain wire. (D) Gold twisted ribbon fillet, with hole at each end. (E) Beads: lapis diamonds and tubes, crystal rings, silver diamonds and balls and small blue glaze cylinders. (F) Copper pin, type 8. (G) Copper reticule.
19186C (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) 2 gold earrings each made of spirally coiled gold wire.; [A and D] (B) Beads. Small lapis date-shaped with ring grooving, carnelian rings and gold-fluted balls; 1 large carnelian flattened date-shaped.; (C) Copper pin, Type 1. With ball head of steatite(?) capped with gold. Broken.
19213B 35-1-482 (none) (none) Group: (A) Gold double conoids, lapis double conoids. (B) Copper pin, Type 1, with lapis ball head capped with gold; broken. (C) [Not assigned] (D) Limestone bowl. Type 47. (E) White calcite bowl. Type 54: imperfect.
8007C (none) (none) B17462 Silver plaque in two parts. [A] A circular plaque diam 009, part of the edge broken away; in center, raised electrum boss surrounded by six silver bosses; round them a border of two double raised concentric bands with fine radial lines between; folded over this and sticking to it when found was a second piece of silver with copper backing apparently broken off from where the edge of the circle is missing; the shape of the whole object would look like an elaborate buckle thus [drawing]. [B] A copper pin 0075 long was corroded on the back [C] (as were many beads) but need not belong to it. The three are cataloged under the same number.
8330B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Two copper pins with circular shafts flattened and curled over to form the head. Both broken and incomplete. [drawing] [Type] VII.
8454E (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
9613B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Copper Pins Rounded in section Corroded together One broken at top; the other broken at bottom. [drawing] Type IX
10387B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Copper Pins Elongated knob heads Tips missing Corroded together Square in section at top, rounded below Copper wire appears to be wound round stem of one in 3 coils cf. Field Note Type I
10752K (none) (none) (none) Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian and lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [.1-.2]Pair of large gold lunate earrings (D) Remains of silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with lapis ball heads. (F) 4 strings of double conoid beads, gold, lapis and silver, for order of stringing cf. Field Note. (G) [G and L] 2 pairs of cockle shells containing black and green paint and some blue paint. (H) A miniature baked clay vase. (I) [I and M] 2 silver earrings. 2 1/2 coils. (J) Necklace: 3 strings of gold and lapis double conoids.
10819F (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. A. [A and F] Two copper pins, both broken, one with a plain the other with a fluted lapis ball head. Tip of second missing. Type V B. [B and G] pair of cockle shells containing black and green paint. C. necklace of lapis and silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads. For order see Field Notes. D. [D.1-.2] Pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils E. A limestone bowl. Type XII
10824G (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]

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