Drawings Bronze Age gold collar from Co. Limerick, Ireland
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.88
Production date
1785
Material
Paper
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Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Engraving (Printing Process)
Dimensions
Height: 295mm
Width: 287mm
Width: 287mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
The IODHAN MORAIN or Breast-plate of Judgement of the Irish DRUIDS
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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).