Ringed Pins

Ringed Pins

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Ringed pins

Found in Ireland, Scotland, North and East England (Danelaw), Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and 1 from L’Anse aux Meadows in North America. There are no finds from the south of England. [FANNING 1994:p.20-22]
Found in both male and female graves [FANNING 1994:p.53]
Adopted by the Norse in the C9th [FANNING 1994:p.53] Norway second half of the C9th.
Found in male graves. Presumably used as cloak fasteners and then used as shroud pins in the grave. [BERSU and WILSON 1966:p.43]

Plain ring pins

Archaeology

• York, 4 from iron, tinned [OTTAWAY 1992:p.695]
• North Elmham, 1 of iron

Kidney ring pins

???
[FANNING 1994]

References

Bersu, Gerhard and Wilson, David M. (1966) Three Viking Graves in the Isle of Man. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Servies: No 1 ^{[BERSU & WILSON 1966]} *

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