  A simple model of the dynamics of lightly bound skyrmions is developed in
which skyrmions are replaced by point particles, each carrying an internal
orientation. The model accounts well for the static energy minimizers of baryon
number $1\leq B\leq 8$ obtained by numerical simulation of the full field
theory. For $9\leq B\leq 23$, a large number of static solutions of the point
particle model are found, all closely resembling size $B$ subsets of a face
centred cubic lattice, with the particle orientations dictated by a simple
colouring rule. Rigid body quantization of these solutions is performed, and
the spin and isospin of the corresponding ground states extracted. As part of
the quantization scheme, an algorithm to compute the symmetry group of an
oriented point cloud, and to determine its corresponding Finkelstein-Rubinstein
constraints, is devised.
