Object: Gorget
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate VIII, 41, W 16.
Site: Ireland, Co Tipperary, near Nenagh, Ardcrony, found a spade's depth under the surface of a bog,
County: County Tipperary
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 247 x 244.5
Weight (g): 121.465
Composition: gold
Description: The upper plate of one of the terminal bosses is missing. Decorated with 7 unornamented ribs, between which are bars decorated with rope work. The complete terminal boss has its upper surface decorated with a central spike, & 14 small knobs surrounded by concentric circles. The lower plate of the terminal discs are decorated with 5 rows of circular knobs, each row being divided by rope work. The end of the gorget was passed into a slit at the back of the lower disc, where it was attached by a corrugated line burnished into a corresponding one in the collar. The wire stitchings now to be seen, do not appear to be ancient.