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 ferrule, early medieval, from Dun Aonghasa, find no. 131.

Creator: The Discovery Programme

Identifier: WSFP_V03_FIG_0131

Type: Image

Format: L.18mm; D.12mm; T.3mm

Incomplete; half of a small, decorated haft. Carved from a red deer antler. Cylindrical shaped, rectangular in section with rounded sides. Outer surface is very worn, some horizontally incised circumlinear lines remain; a pair at each end and three in the centre. Perforation was cylindrical; diameter is 8mm.

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