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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Hone from Dun Aonghasa, find nos. 11 and 128.

Ersteller: The Discovery Programme

Identifikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_0011_128

Typ: Image

Format: L.85mm; W.25mm; T.18mm

Find No. 11: Whetstone made of a finger-shaped pebble of limestone, broken across width. Probable light use as a whetstone with no significant alteration of the pebble surface. Possibly originally perforated? Find no. 128: Limestone fragment. Straight-sided perforation placed at one end of a probable finger-shaped pebble. Possibly part of a whetstone (see 11) which was perforated for suspension.

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