Object: Pin with Ring
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 226, Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Kings Co.,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 180.5
Width (mm): Ring 20 (outside), 13 (inside)
Weight (g): 18
Patina: Patina of dark brown, metal showing through nearly all over.
Surface: Slightly corroded
Description: Pin with head cast solid, shouldered, faceted, ornamented on both sides, with an interlaced figure contained in a diamond of grooves. Neck decorated with an incised band. Very faint decoration of diagonal hatchings down both faces of the shank. Ring joined under the head.