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A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities ... in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy (1857)

Royal Irish Academy. Museum · Dublin : M.H. Gill : Hodges, Smith & Co. · leaf 46

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CLASS V. METALLIC MATERIALS: GOLD — PLATES. 39 were employed as fillets or forehead-bands, for confining the hair, and the shorter ones may have hung over the brow. Figure 568 represents, the actual size, a portion of No. 82, which is 8£ inches long. The ornament, which is in relief, and would… … Fig. 568. No. 82. is very thin, and weighs only 5 dwt. It was found at Lam- bay Island, in Dublin Bay ; and from the statement of a sword being found along with it, it has been conjectured that it formed part of the decoration of that weapon ; but the ac- count afforded by the finder is not very…

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