Summary

Ringed pin with polygonal brambled head, from Heisker, North Uist, 875 - 1100 AD

Accession Number

X.FC 138

Other references

Original description

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &C. Pin, 3 1/2 in. long. with swivel head, ornamented, from Heisker, Hebrides. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Heisker, North Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1856

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

T.S. Muir

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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