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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 665325
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665325
NJ06SW 12 unlocated.
Several bronze pins, of various types, from the Culbin Sands, are in the Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS, formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]).
G F Black 1891; S Grieg 1940; D V Clarke 1971; T Fanning 1983
Catalogue of stick pins:
10-12 Three virtually-identical pins, with plain nail-heads without insets and plain shanks.
19 Plain dome-headed pin of type common in Early Christian contexts in Ireland.
20 Plain dome-headed pin with abacus below head.
22 Disc-headed pin with plain head and shank.
23 As 22, but with more ovoid head.
37 Damaged crescent-headed pin.
40 Double bead-headed pin.
46 Roman-derived pin of uncertain type, with probable flat disc head.
52 Double spiral-headed pin, of probable 7th or 8th century date.
53 Double spiral-headed pin of 'crook' type.
54 Pin with single, double-crook head.
55 Similar to 53.
58 Plain cushion-headed pin, probably of the Viking period.
59 Diamond-headed pin, probably of Viking period. Much-corroded example with solid, faceted head bearing Viking-type link pattern on one face.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
