The Western Stone Forts Project

The Western Stone Forts Project was initiated to study a distinctive group of large stone forts located along the western seaboard of Ireland. The majority of these forts are concentrated on the Aran Islands County Galway, in the Burren Co. Clare and on the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas Co. Kerry. Excavations associated with the project were…

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Bronze pin from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 7.

Criador: The Discovery Programme

Identificador: WSFP_V03_FIG_0007

Tipo: Image

Formato: L.70mm; W.4-2mm; T.3-2mm

Incomplete. Pin shank. Head missing. Upper end flattened and curved over. Tapering shank is rectangular in section with pointed tip now very worn and blunt. Heavy laminar corrosion and also some bronze disease. Dimensions and curved head suggest that the shank belongs to the ring-pin (1911:6) found at the fort in the nineteenth century (see Old Finds).

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