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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Clay mould of knife from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 584.

Creator: The Discovery Programme

Identifier: WSFP_V03_FIG_0584

Type: Image

Format: L.15mm; W.15mm (mould); W.2.5mm (matrix); T.7mm

Very small fragment, possibly from the tang of a knife. Part of a contact face survives and slopes upwards from the matrix to the edge. The matrix is flat, but so little remains there are no features. The presence of a step, flat matrix and the angle of the contact face make it possible that this is a piece from a matching valve for either of the foregoing two pieces.

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