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…

---

Bone pin from Dun Aonghasa, [indeterminate], find no. 2752.

Twórca: The Discovery Programme

Identyfikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_2752

Typ: Image

Format: L.52mm; W.5-4mm; T.3.5-4mm

Incomplete. Upper part of shank. Rectangular in section. Appears to have broken just below head. No sign of any expansion but break suggest that there may have been a perforation; just below break is very slight indentation in back. Shank then tapers, from 5mm to 3.5mm, to circular section, 4mm in diameter. Curved in profile and has a slight groove in one surface. Groove is 15mm long, 3mm wide and less than 1mm in depth. This pin may have been similar to 92E102:01137, 1744 or 2426.

---