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Drawings Bronze Age gold collar from Co. Limerick, Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.89

Production date

1785

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 335mm
Width: 270mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The Iodhan Morain of the Irish Druids. of Gold. weight 22 guineas.

Inscription content

Found in McBury's Bog Co. Limerick. now in possession of Mrs Bury, of Granby Row Dublin

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).