19 The remains of the label were stuck into a Cuerdale scrapbook kept by Charnley which is now in the Harris Museum, Preston. Charnley's caption to the label reads (in part): ‘Remains of the Original Label of the 4 Bone Pins and 1 Bone needle found in the Danish Army Chest at Cuerdale, 1840. These pins and needle found their way to Leagram Hall, where they had been housed for nearly a century. They were given to me by J. Berkeley-Weld Esq. shortly after he left the Hall in the autumn of 1 9 4 0 … ’. The label itself read ’Bone pins and Needles [sic] Found in 1840 in the bank of the Ribble/at Cuerdale, with Saxon and foreign treasure/ consisting of nearly 5000 coins of Alfred … [Ed]wa[rd th]e [Elde]r, Lu[dovicus … C]harles the/… ’.

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21 There is a minor mystery about the two pins still in private possession. They are in a small cigar-box fitted with wires to accommodate three items. A pencil note on the lid explains that two were sent to the British Museum in 1954 and one (the needle) retained by Charnley. ‘Shadows’ on the base-board of the box made it clear that it originally contained nos. 3 and 4 plus the needle. It now contains nos. 1 and 4, no. 3 being one of the two at the British Museum.

22 The matter is of some import, since the pins have already been quoted among the few bone pins of definite Viking date: see Waterman, D. M., ‘Late Saxon, Viking and early medieval finds from York’, Archaeologia, xcvii (1959), pp. 59–105CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at p. 85 n. 4.

23 Crummy, N., ‘A chronology of Romano-British bone pins’, Britannia, x (1979), pp.157–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

24 Kenyon, K. M., Excavations at the Jewry Wall Site, Leicester, Soc. Antiq. London Res. Rep. xv (1948), pp. 264–5.Google Scholar