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 comb, early medieval, from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 356.

Creator: The Discovery Programme

Identifier: WSFP_V03_FIG_0356

Type: Image

Format: L.32mm; W.11mm; T.3mm

Incomplete; fragments from comb sideplate and endplate; one comb tooth. Sideplate: Small fragment of sideplate, 15mm by 5mm by 3.5mm. Appears to have had same type of incised decoration as 92E102:48. Decorated surface is polished. Part of peg perforation remaining. Endplate: Two small, probable end plate fragments. Larger is 19.5mm by 11mm by 3mm. Both have 'dot and circle' decoration, circles are 4.5mm in diameter, and dots 1mm in diameter.

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