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View full screenLarge dress pin or hairpin of whalebone with a pointed head, from Skara Brae, 3100 - 2400 BC
X.HA 425
Late Neolithic
Whalebone; pointed head, now damaged, above perforated expansion of stem; flat sectioned; point rounded
Skara Brae, Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe
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