Object: Hollow Ball
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Frontispiece 479, 31A., Formerly in the possession of Sir Francis Hopkins Bart.
Site: Ireland, Co. Leitrim, Carrick-on-Shannon (found in a potato field near)
Parish: Carrick-on-shannon
County: County Leitrim
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 93 x 82
Weight (g): 67.615
Associations: Found with 6 other balls of similar type, Nos. 477, 483, 480, 481, 478, 482 (Frontispiece)
Description: Made by two overlapping halves soldered or fused together.
Publications: Wilde, Proc. Royal Irish Academy, viii, p. 406.