Object: Pin
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 199 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Meath,Yelltown
County: County Meath
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 305
Width (mm): diam of head 16
Weight (g): 67
Patina: Black in the hollows, otherwise very bright metal
Surface: Corroded
Description: Large pin? gilt, pin stout, shank round, bent at right angles at neck. Head a very small thick disc. The side bears an ornamental band. The face bears (seal-like) on a sunken round, a well engraved device of 3 incurved double spirals, set back to back. Front half of upper third of pin bears 6 squares of ornamental chasing of different patterns.