Object: Bracelet
Classification: Pennanular ring 3rd class
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin,PLate 16, 317, 1, 1896,Deposited in the Collection by the late Sir W. G. D. Goff Bt.
Site: Ireland,County Waterford,near New Ross (in the bed of a small river),in the early summer 1895
Discovery context: river
County: County Waterford
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1895
Width (mm): 96 x 91
Thickness (mm): 40; 17
Weight (g): 495.65
Composition: Gold
Associations: This, with No. 278 (Plate XV) & Nos 308, 311, 307 (Plate XVI) are believed to have been discovered as above.
Description: Ornamented cup shaped terminals. The necks of the solid bow are ornamented with cross-hatchings, contained within lines the lower of which end in dog-tooth ornament: the inside of the cups are ornamented with a band of cross-hatchings. The presumed method by which it has been bade has been described by Mr. Edmond Johnson.*
Publications: *Frazer and Johnson, Proc. Royal Irish Academy, XIX, pp. 781-782