Comerford Crown
The Comerford Crown or Ikerrin Crown was a gold hat found in Ireland in 1692 that was owned by the Comerford family. The five- ounce object was discovered by peat cutters about ten feet deep on Devil's Bit, northwest of Templemore .
The hat was purchased from Joseph Comerford, who soon after went to Anglure , France. Abbé MacGeoghegan mentions the hat in his Histoire d'Irlande in 1758 : “This curious part of antiquity was sold to Joseph Comerford and must be preserved in the Castle of Anglure, where he had bought the estate.” The hat was probably melted down later.
Similarities in terms of shape and patterns exist to at least three objects found in northwestern Spain that are interpreted as headgear, the gold bowls of Axtroki .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://comerfordfamily.blogspot.de/2009/07/comerford-profiles-9-joseph-comerford-d.html
- ↑ http://www.libraryireland.com/articles/ancientirishcrown/index.php
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/historyirelanda00tragoog
- ↑ http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/03/the-comerford-crown-a-bronze-age-gold-hat-from-tipperary/