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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Amber Bead from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 1762.

Creator: The Discovery Programme

Identifier: WSFP_V03_FIG_1762

Type: Image

Format: D. >18.5m;
H.7.5mm

Incomplete. Slightly less than half a bead of weathered reddish brown amber. Disc-shaped with rounded edges and incomplete perforation through the short axis. A V-shaped channel extending the width of one of the broken edges is possibly all that remains of an additional perforation through the long axis.

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