Object: Hollow Ball
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Frontispiece 477, W. 28., purchased from Messrs. West.
Site: Ireland, Co. Leitrim, Carrick-on-Shannon (found in a potato field near)
Parish: Carrick-on-shannon
County: County Leitrim
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 74 x 60
Weight (g): 42.245
Composition: gold
Associations: Found with 6 other balls of similar type, Nos. 483, 480, 481, 479, 478, 482. (Frontispiece)
Description: Made of two overlapping halves soldered or fused together, & pierced on each side with a hole, which has an everted lip.
Publications: Petrie, Dublin Penny Journal, iii, p.144.