Object: Pin
Classification: Pin (Shank)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 5195
Site: England,Lancashire,Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness,North End flint chipping site. Main piece found 1947, tip found 1948, head missing. Found on scoriae of an old iron bloomery in sand dunes, but presence of (?) Bronze Age pottery shards among the slag suggests that the bloomery (? Viking or Monastic) had disturbed earlier deposits which are numerous in immediate vicinity. Pin has been classed L.B.A.
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Walney
District: Barrow-in-Furness
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1947
Length (mm): 103
Thickness (mm): 2
Patina: Heavy green
Other: Length: 4 1/16" = 103.19mm,Thickness: 1/16" = 1.59mm
Description: Found in 2 pieces, head missing, no ornamentation.
Publications: Cumb. + West A + A Soc. Trans. N.S. xlvii, 73 (main piece of 3 13/16" only) il.
Remarks: From a rich sandhill site yielding specimens from secondary neolithic flints and pots to shards of C12 pottery.