Summary

Ring-headed pin of bronze, from Ardskinish, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD

Accession Number

X.IL 758

Other references

Original description

[MOS List, Movement, II.3.2, September 1997]. [One of] Scales and weights (with rest of grave assemblage), Kiloran Bay (scales = IL 774/1, 775/1, 776; weights = IL 777-83). [Loan description - Q.L.1924.35] [One of] Objects included in Collection from Viking Grave, Colonsay:- Ring-headed Pin of bronze.

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)

Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1898

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Lord Strathcona

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Vendor

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