Object: Dress Fastener
Classification: Penannular Ring Class 2
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin;]Plate XV 287 + text fig. 13 9 1908
Site: Ireland,Co. Cork,Coachford,Rylane Mountrivers,Found my Michael Sullivan and William Connell May 1907, when making a fence.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Coachford
County: County Cork
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1907
Width (mm): 115 x 55
Thickness (mm): 45.5; 6
Weight (g): 91.51
Composition: Gold
Associations: Found in association with No. 291 Plate XV + other antiquities (2 bronze socketed celts, a bronze or copper penannular ring and a number of amber beads).
Description: Unornamented.
Publications: Coffey, Proc. Royal Irish Academy XXX, Sec. C., pp. 85-87.,also Day, Journal Cork Hist. + Arch. Soc. XIII Sec. Ser. pp. 118-119.