Object: Ear ornament
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 247, Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Kildare,Carberry,(East side of the Hill),1862
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Carbury
County: County Kildare
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): A. 34; B. 34
Width (mm): A. 37; B. 37
Thickness (mm): B. 14
Weight (g): A. 24; B. 29
Surface: Smooth, fairly bright metal
Associations: Found with a hoe-shaped blade
Description: Cast solid. The ring (thin and flat above, thicker and rounded below) carries on its base, three large, rounded pellets with flattened sides.