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Drawings Bronze Age gold collar from Co. Limerick, Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.88

Production date

1785

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)

Dimensions

Height: 295mm
Width: 287mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The IODHAN MORAIN or Breast-plate of Judgement of the Irish DRUIDS

Inscription content

PLATE I.

References

Reference (free text)

Thomas Pownall, 'Further Observations on the Early Irish Antiquities', Archaeologia 7 (1785): 164-9. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XIII, opp. p. 166.

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 5 (1835), pl. XXVIII.

Reference (free text)

T G E Powell, 'The Sintra Collar and the Shannongrove Gorget: Aspects of Late Bronze Age Goldwork in the West of Europe', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 16 (1974): 3-13. Illustrations, pls. II, III, and IV.
    The item is a proof of a plate from Archaeologia (see Bibliography).