ring
- Museum number
- 1849,0301.15
- Description
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Gold small penannular plain ring. The circular solid body is circular in cross-section and it is slightly thinner at the ends rather than in the middle. The ring has parallel squared flat endings facing each other.
- Production date
- 1150BC-750BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11.36 millimetres
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Weight: 1.80 grammes
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Thickness: 2.85 millimetres (body centre)
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Thickness: 2.04 millimetres (body end)
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Width: 3.15 millimetres (body centre)
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Width: 3.34 millimetres (body end)
- Curator's comments
- Registered by the British Museum as New Sun, Co. Tipperary but revealed by Cahill (1994, 69) as being instead from New Inn, a small village south of Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1849,0301.15