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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Quartz bead from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 1886.

Ersteller: The Discovery Programme

Identifikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_1886

Typ: Image

Format: D.17mm; T.6mm

Complete. Finely-made, polished, disc-like stone bead made from brown quartz siltstone. In section the bead is rectangular with rounded sides; slightly off-centre hour-glass perforation, 7mm in diameter.

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