Object: Dress Fastener
Classification: Gold Plate fragment, Armstrg's Cl. 2
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate XV, 282, R 4025.
Site: Ireland, locality unknown
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 79
Width (mm): 42
Weight (g): 19.705
Composition: gold
Description: Circular edge bound by an outer rim of gold. Ornamented with 9 raised lines above which are a series of triangles shaded with single lines. This plate, now much cut, & flat, was probably portion of the ornamented disc of a fibula.