Object: Beads
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin,Plate XIV, 243 175-184 1885,Purchased with a piece of gold wire (Plate XIV, No. 257) from Hervey, Esq.,(Entry in Museum Register merely states, "Found in the year 184-")
Site: Locality unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 12.5
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): Collective weight of the beads: 8.66
Composition: gold
Description: Six complete and six half beads (all of same type). Made of thin gold plate, unornamented, made by joining together 2 cones.
Publications: Proc. Royal Irish Academy, VIII, p. 407