Pin

Description

Ring-headed bronze pin; does not meet shaft on one side and gives impression of being made by bending wire rather than by casting, Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney

Museum reference

X.GAA 236

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

Links to other web pages

Canmore