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 34
CLASS V. — METALLIC MATERIALS : GOLD — DIADEMS. 27 the ends of the hoop are not soldered at the point of junction. The annexed cut, Figure 555, is a back view of the posterior disc of the same left boss, and … nament is of a piece with that FIg'556' No-17' employed in the arch and the anterior disc, but the studs and intervening rope-work are more minute. Where the end of the diadem overlapped and concealed a portion of the posterior plate, the latter is plain, showing that even in these early days of…