Object: Earring
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate XVIII, 415, W 63., formerly in Collection of Major H.C. Sirr
Site: Ireland, Co Roscommon, near Castlereagh (said to have been found)
County: County Roscommon
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 37 x 35
Weight (g): 19.185
Composition: gold
Associations: Plate XVIII, No. 416, was found in the same place, & obtained with same collection.
Description: Torque type, made by twisting a four-leaved bar of gold, the twisted portion ends, on each side, in a collar, from which spring the terminals for passing through the ear.