123/1932/SF8
This hairpin was found on the site of the town’s public bath-house.
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123/1932/SF9
9/2005/2/1
This hair pin was found in the legionary fortress at Exeter, and shows that there were women in the fortress.
47/2005/4/1
This hair pin was found in the legionary fortress at Exeter, and shows that there women in the fortress.
53/2005/6/1
9/2005/2/2
300/1988/B17
This pin or needle was a tool used in the production of cloth, and its highly polished surfaces suggest it has been well used.
300/1988/B19
83/2005/10
Male adornment made from the giant clam shell (Tridacna gigas).
528/1989/57
This hairpin was found near the forum building in the Roman town of Isca Dumnoniorum.
44/1968/3
853/1989/124
This hairpin was used by someone living in the Roman town of Isca Dumnoniorum.
853/1989/127
853/1989/130
853/1989/131
853/1989/132
853/1989/135
855/1989/11
855/1989/13
855/1989/16
855/1989/18
855/1989/19
855/1989/20
756/1988/2
Hat pins appeared around 1890 when the fashion for large decorated hats began.
756/1988/3
30/1968
Small pin cushion decorated with a floral design made in pins.
WIL261
GLO048
922
A hand-embroidered silk pin-cushion made for a ladies dressing table, which may have belonged to a member of the Courtenay family of Powderham.
76/1964
This pin cushion is made of cloth, ribbon and glass beads.