Find Spot record MHG11937 - Bronze Swivel, Durness

In Dunrobin Castle Museum is a "Bronze swivel, about 2,000 years old, from Durness" (NC 4067). Visited by OS (J L D) 1 July 1960.

A sketch of swivel is given in a letter from J M Joass, Golspie, to Dr J Anderson, NMAS, which suggests that it had been found shortly before. He says in a second letter that keeper of Ashmolean Museum, after seeing a sketch of it, calls it Late Celtic and believes that it might be from horse gear or a dog collar, although too heavy for jesses of a falcon. Joass adds that its Celtic character suggests a local origin although Durness was a Viking station.
Info contained in letters from J M Joass, 10 December 1894 and 20 Feburary 1895.

A bronze swivel, total length 1.8ins, consisting of two cast hemispheres connected by a ball and socket joint, each having a similar loop, 1.85ins across, swelling into animal heads where they are attached to the hemispheres. Surface much worn (Acc No: 109).
Info from TS catalogue of Dunrobin Museum (A S Henshall to OS.