Object: Bulla
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin,Formerly in Collection of Robert Day, Esq. F.S.A.,Pl. XIX, 445, 355, 1918
Site: Ireland,County Wexford,Said to have been found on the Bann shore*.
County: County Wexford
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 34
Width (mm): 23.5
Weight (g): 10.145
Composition: The core which is covered with a much broken thin gold plate, was analysed & was found to consist of a large amount of earthy matter containing some irregular particles, probably altered blood globules.
Associations: *with the fragment of an inscribed bellshine.
Description: The Bulla is ornamented at the top and round the neck with lines.
Publications: Stokes, Journal Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, x, pp. 353-356.,Day, ibid, XII, pp. 128-129,Armstrong, ibid., xlviii, pp. 180/2 and Messrs. Sotheby's Catalogue of the Day Sale May 1913, p. 64, No. 432.