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. 1465.

Maker: The Discovery Programme

Verwijzing: WSFP_V03_FIG_1465

Type: Image

Formaat: L.35mm (mould); L.25mm (matrix); W.25mm (mould), W.14mm (matrix); T.9mm

Knife point. The matrix shows the end of the blade narrowing to a rounded tip. The surface is weathered and not as fine as on the previous fragments. The matrix is off-centre on the mould so that one contact face is quite narrow. Both contact faces slope downwards slightly from matrix edge to mould edge. A thin layer of the outer wrap remains and this presumably was originally enveloped by another layer.

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