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This simple bronze ringed pin was found in a woman's grave at Carn nan Bharraich on Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides. She was buried between 850 and 900 with a pair of Scandinavian oval brooches and other objects, most now fragmentary.

The ringed pin has a movable ring at one end to which some thread would have been attached. The other end of the thread would have been looped over the tip of the pin to stop it from slipping out of the garment. The point has been flattened.

Ringed pins are a type of dress pin, often with decoration on the heads. They are an Irish type of pin which was adopted by Vikings, especially those living in western Europe. Examples occur in bronze and silver.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-098-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.FC 186 A
• Date: 850 - 900 AD
  Between 850 and 900
  
• Material: Bronze
  Ring
  
• Dimensions: 5.00" L x 0.15" W
  
• What: Ring
  
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• Where: Scotland, Argyll, Oronsay, Carn a Bhorich
  Scotland, Argyll, Oronsay, Carn a Bhorich
  
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• Description: Bronze ring from Carn a Bhorich, Oronsay, Argyll
  Pin from a bronze ring, from Carn a Bhorich, Oronsay, Argyll, 850 - 900 AD
  
• References:
  • Graham-Campbell, James and Batey, Colleen E. Vikings in Scotland. An Archaeological Survey. Edinburgh: University Press, 1998, p 114. 
  • Grieg, Sigurd. Viking Antiquities in Scotland (=Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, Part II, ed. by Haakon Shetelig). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1940, p 45. 
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