Find Spot record MHG12586 - Bronze Pin, Rossal

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Grid reference Centred NC 6800 4100 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC64SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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A crescent-headed, bronze stick-pin, possibly 5th to 8th century AD in date, from Rossal (NC 68 41), Sutherland, is in the NMAS (Acc. No. FC 255) The shank is decorated. (But see also NC60SE 12).
L Laing 1973.

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  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Laing, L R. 1973. 'People and pins in Dark Age Scotland' in Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc Vol. 50 (1973), pp 53-71. 70.

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Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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