Object: Disc
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate XIX, 430, W 267., procured for the Academy by the Rev. J.H. Todd, D.D., P.R.I.A.
Site: Ireland, Co Mayo, near Ballina
County: County Mayo
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 82.5 x 79
Weight (g): 8.985
Composition: gold
Associations: found with a similar example No. 429, Plate XIX.
Description: Pierced in the centre with two small holes. It is decorated with a cross enclosed in a circle, & with a circle round the edge of the disc.
Publications: Frazer, Journal, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, XXIX, p. 41.