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Carved bone pin

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From Foshigarry, North Uist

Carved bone pin
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This bone pin was found at Foshigarry on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. It was used as a dress pin or as a hairpin, sometime between 600 and 1000.

The pin was carved from a longbone of a cow or red deer. The head is thin and decorated with chevrons.

Bone pins are fairly common finds from Pictish sites, occurring in a range of sizes and decoration. In general, the same basic head shapes appear at widely distant Pictish sites in the Northern and Western Isles, although this one is without parallels.

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