Pins
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Introduction
Pins were probably the most common form of cloak fastening in the Viking Age (GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, Viking Artefacts, A Select Catalogue 1980, p.30)
Pins classed as dress pins could have been used for a number of purposes including fastening cloaks, securing hair styles or as stylus. (MacGREGOR, MAINMAN and ROGERS, Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn from Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York 1999, p.1949).
(OWEN-CROCKER 2004)
Morris (2000,p.2309) makes the point that wooden pins would not have had the strength of pins made from other materials but would have been quicker and easier to make.
The typology styles 1 to 6 are based on that by Nicola Rogers in (EVANS and LOVELUCK 2009, p.33). Styles 7 to 11 have been added by the author.
Style 1 Globular (Spherical) head
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Archaeology
- England York
- 6 of iron. 2 with pellets attached to the globular heads (OTTAWAY 1992, p.693-695)
- 14 of bone (MacGREGOR, MAINMAN and ROGERS 1999, p.1948-1949)
- England Flixbourgh
- 78 of copper alloy (EVANS and LOVELUCK 2009, p.33)
- 10 of silver (EVANS and LOVELUCK 2009, p.70-72)
- 33 of iron. 12 with lead heads, 2 with glass heads, 19 with iron heads (EVANS and LOVELUCK 2009, p.74-77)
Discussion
Originate in the early Anglo-Saxon period (OTTAWAY 1992, p.693). A long lived type – impossible to separate roman from post roman on typology (MacGREGOR, MAINMAN and ROGERS, Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn from Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York 1999, p.1950). The Fixbourgh examples date from 650-1000AD.
