Dress pin

Description

Large dress pin or hairpin of whalebone with a domed head, from Skara Brae

Museum reference

X.HA 430

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Dress pin, Hairpin

Materials

Whalebone

Physical description

Whalebone; domed head; three equidistant, prominent horizontal ridges below head; lateral perforated bulb below ridges; broken

Collection place(s)

Skara Brae, Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Links to other web pages

Canmore