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Drawings Bronze Age gold ornaments from Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.73

Production date

1812

Material

Paper
Ink
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 102mm
Width: 187mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

GOLD ROD FOUND AT LOSSET NEAR BALLYCASTLE C[ount]y of ANTRIM.

Length 3 Feet 2 Inches Circumference 1 Inch weight 22 ounces
The solid part about four inches the twisted about 34
Archæologia XVI. p. 353.

References

Reference (free text)

John Alexander M'Naghton, 'An Account of a Golden Rod, Found by a Peasant in the Neighbourhood of Ballycastle, in the County of Antrim', Archaeologia 16 (1812): 353. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 1, pl. LII, opp. p. 353.