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)
1627 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. With round head; square in section; pierced just below head. Point broken off. [drawing 1:1]
1645 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pin. With six grooves at head; pierced just below head. [drawing 2:5]
1650 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin, pierced below head. Point broken off. [drawing]
2573 (none) (none) (none) Pin. White stone. Point missing. [drawing 1:1]
2644 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. [drawing 1:1]
2852 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Waisted head: in good condition.
3174 (none) (none) (none) Bronze safety pin. Frame only. [drawing 1:1]
3223 (none) (none) (none) Frame of bronze safety pin [drawing 1:1]
3243 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dress pin. Long and thin with sharp point and slightly flattened head. Present length (highly bent): 156mm. Diameter: 4mm.
6009 (none) (none) B16359 Pin. Bone. Square in section with knob head. [drawing 1:1]
6012 (none) (none) (none) Pin holder? Metal bronze. Triangular. Rounded at top and base. [drawing 1:1]
6060 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster [seems to be corrected as white calcite] pin. Chipped.
6061 (none) (none) B16357 Alabaster pin. E.
6141 (none) (none) B16415 Bronze pin. E. [drawing]
6142 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. B.
6145 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. [drawing 1:2]
6403 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. B. [drawing 1:1]
6459 (none) (none) B16414 Bronze Pin. E.
6490 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. B.
6492 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pencil? B.
6493 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Slightly curved below. B.
6494 (none) (none) B16416 Bronze pin. Spiral top.
6505 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. Hole through top. B.
6507 (none) (none) (none) Pin bronze. B.
6508 (none) (none) B16417 Pin bronze. Triangular in shape. E

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