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• Iron pin, another iron pin, and a bronze pin from a Roman fort in Roxburghshire, c. 80-180
• Irish or Pictish silver pin, 5th-6th century
• Silver pin with polyhedral head, Merovingian, first half of the 6th century
• Wooden dress pin, found in Ayrshire, dating to c. 585-630
Bone pins
• Bone pin found at Jarlshof in Shetland, c. 500-850
• Bone pin carved with a cross, found at Jarlshof in Shetland, c. 600-1000
• Bone pin from a Viking boy's grave in the Outer Hebrides, c. 600-1000
• Animal-headed Pictish pin found on the island of Kerrara, c. 700-900
• Bone pin found at Jarlshof in Shetland, c. 850-1100
• Bone pin (for fastening a cloak?), Viking Britain
• Bone pin from Orkney, c. 850-1000
• Bone pin carved with a cross, found at Jarlshof in Shetland, c. 850-1100
Handpins
• Bronze handpin, Ireland, 6th-7th century
• Bronze handpin of an Irish type, found in Argyll, c. 500-700
• Silver handpin with red enamel ornament and a Pictish symbol on the back from the Norrie's Law hoard, c. 600-700
• Silver handpin with red enamel ornament from the Norrie's Law hoard, c. 600-700
• Gilt bronze dress-pin, Merovingian, c. 550-600 (also here)
• Silver and gold dress-pin with a garnet, Merovingian, c. 570
• Pair of gold veil-pins, Merovingian, c. 570
Viking-era ringed pins
• Early medieval knobbed ring pin from Caerwent
• Bronze knobbed ringed pin from the Inner Hebrides, c. 850-900
• Bronze pin from a woman's grave in the Inner Hebrides, c. 850-900
• Bronze pin from a Viking woman's grave in Orkney, c. 850-950
• Bronze pin from the Inner Hebrides, c. 875-925
• Bronze pin from a man's grave in the Inner Hebrides, c. 875-950
• Bronze pin from Caithness, c. 900-1000
• Ringed pin from Orkney, c. 940-1025
• Viking Age ringed pins from Denmark (Acta Archaeologica 71(1), 79-85, Nov. 2000)
• Viking ringed pin from Portskewett
• Early medieval spiral headed pin from Caerwent
• Bronze pin of an Irish type, found on the Outer Hebrides, dating to c. 875-1100
• Silver pin with polyhedral head, from Shetland, c. 900-1100
• Clothing pins from Novgorod, 12th-14th century
And, for to festne his hood under his chyn,
He hadde of gold ywroght a curious pyn;
A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was.

General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, description of the Monk, ll. 195-197

• Pins found in London; glass heads (1150-1200), red coral heads (1270-1350), and pewter heads (1150-1200)
• A copper alloy pin from Urquhart Castle, Inverness-shire, 13th-14th century
• Pins and pin-case of Hermann von Goch, c. 1398
• Bronze pin found at Threave Castle, 14th or 15th century
In the occupations of makyng of Cloth, the Laborers therof have been dryven to take grete part of their wages in Pynnes, Girdels, and other unprofitable Merchaundise.

The Rolls of Parliament, 5.502b

• Silver pin made in 16th century Augsburg
• Tudor silver-gilt dress pin
• Tudor silver-gilt dress pin
• Tudor dress pin
• The Pin-Maker, Das Ständebuch, 1568