Dress pin or hairpin of bone with a winged head, from Orkney, 850 - 1000 AD

Large dress pin or hairpin of whalebone, with a spatulate head, from Skara Brae, Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney, 3100 - 2500 BC

Large dress pin or hairpin of whalebone with a pointed head, from Skara Brae, 3100 - 2400 BC

Large dress pin or hairpin of whalebone with a domed head, from Skara Brae

Animal-headed dress pin or hairpin of bone, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 850 - 1100 AD

Animal-headed dress pin or hairpin of bone, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 850 - 1100 AD

Dress pin or hairpin of bone with two animal heads, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 850 - 1100 AD

Animal-headed dress pin or hairpin of bone, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 850 - 1100 AD

Animal-headed dress pin or hairpin of bone, unfinished, from Jarlshof, Shetland

Dress pin or hairpin of bone with a baluster head, from Jarlshof, 850 - 1000 AD

Oval ringed pin of bronze, slightly articulating, from a Viking grave group from Kneep Head, Valtos, Uig, Isle of Lewis, 875 - 925 AD

Dress pin of silver, (ring-headed pin minus ring), from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD