| Fig. 448. Brigmilston. ½ | Fig. 449. Everley. ½ |
What is termed part of a bronze pin, some chipped flints, and long ribbed beads of pottery, were found in the barrow called Matlow Hill,[1405] Cambridgeshire. Another, also fragmentary, was found with a flake of calcined flint, four jet beads, and burnt bones in a barrow on Wykeham Moor,[1406] Yorkshire, by Canon Greenwell. Others are mentioned by Bateman;[1407] but in all these cases, as Canon Greenwell[1408] has pointed out, the presumed pins may have been awls or prickers. The little pin found with a lance-head, a small urn, and some gold ornaments at Upton Lovel,[1409] Wilts, may have been of the same character, as also other pins mentioned by Sir R. Colt Hoare.[1410] A “fine brass pin” is described as having been found with glass, jet, and amber beads, together with burnt bones, in a barrow near Wilsford.[1411] A very fine one in a barrow at Lake,[1412] which, from the engraving, was probably an awl. The long pin with a handle found with a bronze celt and lance-head, or dagger, in a barrow at Abury,[1413] may also have been a tool of that kind. The bronze pins recorded to have been found in a barrow at Bulford,[1414] Wilts, likewise seem to come under this category.
In a barrow at Brigmilston[1415] an interment of burnt bones was accompanied by a pin of twisted bronze, 6 inches long, in the form of a crutch, the head perforated (Fig. 448), a small dagger of bronze, and two whetstones.
A smooth pin of the same character and nearly the same size, but broken, was found in a barrow at Normanton,[1416] in company with burnt bones, two bronze daggers, a whetstone, and a pipe of bone.
The curious pin, with two rings at the head, in each of which is another ring (Fig. 449), was found by Sir R. Colt Hoare in a barrow near Everley. The interment seems to have been in the hollowed trunk of a tree, but the bones were burnt. With them was a dagger with three rivets, and this instrument, which is described as having been in a sheath of wood lined with cloth. Its purpose is difficult to determine.
Fig. 450.—Bryn Crûg. 1/1 — Fig. 451.—Taunton. ½ — Fig. 452.—Chilton Bustle. 1/1
Another pin (4½ inches), with a bi-lobed head and three perforations, was found with a two-looped palstave and a knife with an interment at Bryn Crûg,[1417] near Carnarvon. It is shown in full size in Fig. 450.
Pins with large rings for their heads have occasionally been found. One such from Taunton,[1418] 7¾ inches, is shown in Fig. 451. It was found with palstaves, a socketed celt, rings, and other objects. The part forming the pin is bent, it would appear intentionally, but for what purpose it is difficult to guess.