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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9021 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Tip missing Rounded in section [Type] I [drawing] |
| 9029 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. [Type] I [drawing] |
| 9031 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded head. Rectangular in section. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 9032 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Common type. Broken in 3 pieces. [Type] I |
| 9044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Head narrower than the stem of the pin. The head is covered by a cap of gold foil. Pin broken in two pieces. Only half of gold cap remains. Tip missing [drawing] |
| 9057 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [Type] IX [drawing] |
| 9065 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With silver ball head Copper caps on top and bottom of head - silver shows only in middle. Rectangular in section Tip missing [Type] V [drawing] |
| 9066 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [drawing] |
| 9081 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] [Type] I |
| 9085 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Lapis ring bead head with copper cap. Broken in 3 pieces. [type] V |
| 9098 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Short thickened head Broken in 2 pieces [drawing] |
| 9099 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section [drawing] |
| 9111 | (none) | 1928,1009.348 | (none) | Copper pin With solid domed head. [drawing] | |
| 9136 | (none) | 1928,1009.361 | (none) | Copper tool Shaft rectangular in section 0012x0006, curled over to form head: no point. [drawing] | |
| 9151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With gold and lapis ball head the stem is pierced and through the back passes a copper ring: from this hangs apparently a very slender copper chain (almost entirely destroyed): the chain runs along the pin to the point where a silver seal (U.9150) was fixed by corrosion to the stem, and it presumably supported the seal. [Type V] |
| 9159 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with thickened head and short tang onto this is corroded a copper finger ring point broken [Type] I |
| 9169 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With thickened head and short tang. [Type] I |
| 9180 | (none) | 1928,1009.241 | (none) | Copper pin Thickened to head, round in section, short tang [Type] I |
| 9184 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin With curled over head. [Type] VII |
| 9185 | (none) | 1928,1009.371 | (none) | Copper fork? Or ornamental pin. Made rather like a human hand, the fingers bent slightly forwards [drawing] 1:1 Toilet instrument 2 | |
| 9195 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With thickened head and short tang (point broken) [Type] I |
| 9198 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. With thickened head & short tang |
| 9216 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin Rounded in section [drawing] [type] IX |
| 9224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Broken in 2 pieces [type] IX |
| 9227 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin Rounded in section Thickened top [drawing] |
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