Pins
This category includes straight objects used for fastening cloth.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8344 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. The stem thickened towards the head and pierced at 30mm from the end: From the end protrudes a short tang. Round the stem at the hole there is a raised double band which may be in the metal but might be due to extra corrosion caused by a string or wire being twisted round it here. One lapis bead from the grave might be connected with the pin. [Type] V? |
| 8354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with plain ball head of lapis lazuli. The stone cracked and in bad condition. Stem broken. [Type] V. |
| 8355 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis(?) capped with silver. The whole in very bad condition, split open in every direction by decay, and broken. [Type] V |
| 8390 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with plain lapis ball head. (broken). [Type] V. |
| 8395 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with plain ball copper head. (broken) [Type] V |
| 8404 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin Round in section. Ball head of stone, originally gold plated. Broken in 2 pieces. [Type] V. |
| 8411 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Toggle? pin. Copper. Rectangular in section above, rounded below. Short head. [drawing] [type] I |
| 8442 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin Copper Broken in 2 places Top bent over flattened and widened at neck rounded in section at bottom. [drawing] not to scale. [Type] VI |
| 8459B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 copper pins Turned over heads. Thick in section and rounded. [drawing] |
| 8470 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section perforated top through which a copper ring is passed Flat top [drawing] |
| 8502 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to head and with short tang [Type] I |
| 8503 | (none) | (none) | B17383 | Copper pin. Thickened to head and with a short tang (broken). | |
| 8522 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin WIth ribbed ball head of lapis capped with gold [Type] V |
| 8530 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Thickened slightly to the head and provided with a short tang. (broken) I. |
| 8547 | (none) | (none) | B17429 | Copper pin. With curled-over head. [drawing] VII. | |
| 8598 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin(?) Flat blade rolled over at the end: round shaft ending in a point. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8606 | (none) | (none) | B17448 | Copper pin Bent over at the top and with a lapis ball head Point missing, and stem broken [type] VI | |
| 8610 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With pierced stem and bent-over head. Coming to a point. |
| 8617 | (none) | (none) | B16776 | Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing] | |
| 8629 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Stem thickened and pierced, then bent over the ball head [drawing] [Type] VI |
| 8649 | (none) | (none) | B17389 | Copper pin. Circular section, stem pierced and thickening to head: short tang(?) broken off. I. | |
| 8665 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Round section, stem thickening towards head and ending in a short tang. [type] I |
| 8671 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Stem circular in section, thickening to head. In bad condition. |
| 8720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin Copper Rounded in section. Rounded head. Broken in 3 pieces. [Type] IX |
| 8729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone, brown. Rounded in section. Engraved oblique parallel lines running down pin. Lines filled in with white paint. Fragment. [drawing] |
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