Find Spot record 1227 - BORERAY

NF88SE 5 centred 85 81.

Three Viking-type pins from Boreray, are in the NMAS. Two of them (GT 238-9) are similar to an example from Heisker, Nth Uist(2); while the third is undecorated and ringless (GT 240) (A O Curle, M Olsen and H Shetelig 1954) (These pins may be referable to the settlement site near An Corran (NF88SE 1) where many pins of medieval date and earlier have been found).
S Grieg 1940; A O Curle, M Olsen and H Shetelig 1954.

No further information.
Visited by OS (E G C) 3 July 1965.

15. RMS GT 241. Mushroom-headed pin, of type attributed to 5th and 6th centuries AD, but continuing in use later.
38. RMS GT 242. Pin of ball- or bead-headed type; this example has an acorn-shaped head with hatching.
41. RMS GT 243. Double bead-headed pin; the upper bead is larger than the lower and has incised lines on the shoulder.
47. RMS GT 244. Frustrum-headed pin of probable Viking period type.
L R Laing 1973.

S Grieg, 1940, Viking Antiquities in Scotland, 146-7 fig. 94 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2901.

A O, M and H Curle, Olsen and , 1954, Civilisation of the Viking settlers in relation to their old and new countries, 238 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2560.

L R Laing, 1973b, Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 57, 70, 71 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3785.

L. R. Laing, 1975c, The Archaeology of Late Celtic Britain and Ireland c. 400-1200 AD, 326, 328, 331 figs. (Bibliographic reference). SWE3794.

T Fanning, 1983, Some aspects of the bronze ringed pin in Scotland, 341, No. 51 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2007.