Freswick, Midtown
Pin (Bronze), Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Freswick, Midtown
Classification Pin (Bronze), Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 9268
Site Number ND36NE 17
NGR ND 379 684
NGR Description ND c. 379 684
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Canisbay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND36NE 17 c. 379 684.
A bronze pin and pottery were found in a field near the farm steading at Mid Town, Freswick (ND 379 684) and were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1925. The pin is 3 15/16 ins long with an oval discoidal head, 5/16 ins broad, with a slight projection on either side below it, and a cross incised on both front and back of the head. The stem is bent. This pin appears to conform to Laing's stick-pin type 23, and is, therefore, probably not earlier than the 8th century.
The five fragments of pottery are of hand-made black-ware with a buff-coloured skin inside and outside.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1925; L R Laing 1975.