Eigg
Pin (Bronze)(Norse), Sickle (Iron)(Norse), Spindle Whorl (Norse), Whetstone (Norse)
Site Name Eigg
Classification Pin (Bronze)(Norse), Sickle (Iron)(Norse), Spindle Whorl (Norse), Whetstone (Norse)
Canmore ID 22150
Site Number NM48NE 17
NGR NM 4 8
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Note (7 January 1966)
NM48NE 17 unlocated.
A Viking bronze pin, some 12 cm long, from Eigg (centred NM 4786) is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no: BN 51).
S Grieg 1940
Note (1 December 1982)
This pin was an item in a collection of material from Eigg which was donated to the NMAS by Prof N MacPherson is 1878 and 1882. Other articles (not recorded elsehwere) comprised: a sandstone whetstone, 6 1/4 ins long (BN 48); a stone whorl, 1 3/8 ins in diameter (BN 49), an iron ferrule (IL 168) and a portion of an iron sickle (IL 169).
NMAS Catalogue 1892
