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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 652409
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/652409
NC96NE 27 c. 96 65.
Part of a clay mould for casting a ring-headed pin, measuring 2 1/2ins in length, and a point of a deer-horn tine cut off 2 1/2 ins from the point and hollowed out for use as a handle, found in the sands at Reay (NC 96 65) were purchased for the National Musuem of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1927 (Accession nos: HR 816 and HR 817 respectively).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1927.
The mould is for Iron Age projecting ring-headed pins.
D V Clarke 1971.
