Find from Knock-e-doonee
The findspot of a bronze ornamented pin of late 9th-10th century AD date. The pin, 8.9 centimetres long surmounted by an ornamented disc, 0.95 centimetres diameter, was found by a Mr Martin circa 1927 'below the brooghs at Knoc y Doonee.'
The disc is ornamented on both faces by an outline cross, having diagonals between some of the limbs, and enclosed by a ring. The object might possibly have been a dress-pin associated with the nearby ship burial.
It was exhibited at the NHAS Meeting in Douglas, November 1930. Presumably the pin was returned to the finder as it is not figured in T. Fanning's article 'Hiberno-Norse pins from the Isle of Man' in 'Viking Age in the Isle of Man, 1983 (ed. C. Fell et. al.) pp.27-36, which examines pins preserved in the Manx Museum.
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- Parish: Andreas
- Sheading: Ayre
- Grid Ref: NX4005002420
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record