Object: Box
Classification: Circular
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin,Frontispiece 485. W274. 275
Site: Ireland
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 65.5
Weight (g): 30.165
Composition: Gold
Associations: *Stated by Mr. Cilborn in the official Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition of 1853 to have contained inside it when found, a penannular ring (No. 247 Plate XVII W114).
Description: Small circular box, made in three portions, the rim and a slightly concave top and base, and with a rope-like pattern round the edges of the frame where the various parts join.
Publications: *Wilde, Catalogue, pp. 67, 84-85,# Proc. Royal Irish Academy, ii, Appendix p. xxxii
Remarks: Purchased with No. 486 (Frontispiece) - (a box if similar character) and gold fibula from William Sharkey for L 15.10.0#