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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Bone point from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 1105d.

Creator: The Discovery Programme

Identifier: WSFP_V03_FIG_1105d

Type: Image

Format: L. 85mm; W.13mm; T. 6mm

Roughly rectangular shaped in section with irregular sides above working end. Fracture surfaces are left rough until 20mm above point - object becomes worked into round sectioned working end; tapers to intact point. Final 10 - 15mm retains remains of surface polish with possibly faint trace of encircling file marks.

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