Summary

Bronze pin with ring head, from Ardskinish, Colonsay, Argyll, c. 875 - 925 AD

Accession Number

X.FC 190

Other references

Original description

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &C. Bronze Pin with ring head, from Ardskinish, Colonsay. [MoS description] Early People. Moving around in their world. (6) Bronze pin, Ardskinish. 850 - 950 AD. [Scran caption] This bronze pin was found with a buckle at Ardskinish on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides. They may be from a settlement find or perhaps the remains of a Viking grave. The pin dates from around 875 to 925. The plain ringed pin has a movable ring at one end to which some thread would have been attached. The other end of the thread would have been looped over the tip of the pin to stop it from slipping out of the garment. The head is decorated with two vertical lines near the edges.

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)

Ardskinish, Colonsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1907

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Right Honourable Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., per W. Garson

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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