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. 916.

Twórca: The Discovery Programme

Identyfikator: WSFP_V03_FIG_0916

Typ: Image

Format: L.91mm; W.58mm; T.21mm

Hone made of quartz sandstone, broken. Rectangular cross-section with artificially flat and smoothed faces. The breakage bisects a single well-defined V-shaped groove running down the length of the hone probably used for sharpening a pin or blade.

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