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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Limestone bead from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 591.

Fotograf: The Discovery Programme

Identifikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_0591

Type: Image

Format: D.19mm by 15.5mm

Complete. Small geoid shaped stone consisting of a limestone pebble with corallites, no doubt picked up on the shore. This may have been raw material for a similar bead to no.33. It is abraded and may have been worked to some extent.

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