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 no. 41.

Maker: The Discovery Programme

Verwijzing: WSFP_V03_FIG_0041

Type: Image

Formaat: L.155mm; W.53mm; T.26mm

Hone made of quartz sandstone. It has a rectangular cross-section with artificially smoothed faces which are slightly waisted towards the centre. On one face a single well-defined V-shaped groove runs along the length of the hone.

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