NMS Archaeology Object 384529: X.1997.436 - Pin


Description

Summary


Ball-headed pin of tinned iron, with knurled decoration, possibly Anglo-Saxon, from Dunadd, Argyll


Accession Number


X.1997.436


Other references

None

Original description

[MOS Provisional List, Display, II.4.5, October 1997]. [One of] Other Anglo-Saxon, and Frankish, imports: silver ball-headed pin with knurled deco., poss. Saxon. Dunadd. PK note: Provisional 1997 register number allocated to MOS object. Alice Blackwell note, 2009-02-23: The material is tinned iron (not silver); it is also more accurate to describe it as possibly Anglo-Saxon (rather than as Saxon). The published reference (from which these corrections were taken) - A. Lane & E. Campbell 2000 Dunadd: an early Dalriadic capital. Oxford: Oxbow - the page ref is 166-7, catalogue no. 1336; and it is illustrated in illus 4.77.

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)

Dunadd, Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1997

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

None

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