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. 1251.

Ersteller: The Discovery Programme

Identifikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_1251

Typ: Image

Format: L.82mm; W.19mm; T.7mm

Finely-worked piece. Produced from wide longitudinal segment of longbone of large animal. Upper part appears to be missing and object has broken into a number of conjoining fragments. Three other loose fragments may be part of upper region of piece. Retains curved cross-section in upper region. Sides converge regularly to point. Fracture surfaces in uppermost region are left unworked. From ca. 1/3 distance from top, fracture surfaces become smoothed and rounded and from the approximate centre they merge into underside in continuous curve. Final ca. 1/3 adopts a finely-rounded cross-section continuing to taper to sharp, perfectly intact, point. Final 1/3 is finely polished and manufacture marks are still discernible in the form of fine vertical and transverse file marks.

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