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Description

Bronze ring-headed pin; face decorated with fine close radiating lines, Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney

Museum reference

X.GAA 235

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pin

Materials

Bronze

Collection place(s)

Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Craw, J. Hewat, 1933 (d.)
Richardson, James Smith, Dr, 1883 - 1970

References

Hedges, John W., Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney, Part II: Gurness, BAR British Series 164, Oxford, 1987, fig. 2.39

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