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Antler pin found in Kendrick's cave, Llandudno
Lady Llanover's brass dress clip, 1891
  • These simple, yet gracefully shaped pins were used as dress pieces during the Middle Iron Age. This example in bronze, one of only a few known from Wales, was uncovered along the foreshore at Margam Beach during the 1980s.
Iron Age ring-headed pin found at Margam beach
Viking Ringed Pin from Portskewett
  • A Hiberno-Norse knobbed ring pin, decorated with three incised saltires. The ring has four projecting knobs, waisted and with a cluster of five subsidiary knobs on each head.
Knobbed Ring Pin from Caerwent (early medieval)
  • An iron double spiral headed pin, Irish type.
Spiral Headed Iron Pin from Caerwent, early medieval