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 pronged instrument from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 4013.

Ersteller: The Discovery Programme

Identifikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_4013

Typ: Image

Format: L.7.6mm; W.2.5mm; T.2.3mm

Gouge. A complete hollow object, sub-triangular in section. Both ends are pointed. The narrow end is defined by a single flattipped blunt point and is chipped at the tip. The wider end has two pronged points. The area between these points was notched in a roughly rectangular shape. Also it appears that originally there was a third point. Its condition is much poorer than the narrow end and the tip of one of its points is broken. There are traces of polish on the gouge, particularly on the underside, and around the edges of the point at the narrow end.

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