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Collection Item: Pin

Basic info

Collection
Archaeology
Object name
Pin
Object category
Anglo-Scandinavian
Description
Spatulate head. Waterman 1959 describes it as "A type of pin with perforated tapering head with cross-piece at the base may possibly be derived from a form of late Saxon styliform pin represented at Whitby and bone pins with cruciform termination are known from the late Viking settlement at Jarlshof, Shetland."
Production date start
866
Production date end
1066
Period
Anglo-Scandinavian

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Identification

Object number
YORYM : C644
Number of objects
1
ID
7613

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Bone (Whole)

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Place
York