Dublin Castle Crest

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The Dublin Castle Crest is an archaeological find discovered during the 1961-62 excavations at Dublin Castle in Dublin , Ireland . It is a comb made from a bone in which an Ogham inscription has been carved. The find is dated to the 11th to 12th centuries AD.

description

The Dublin Castle comb has the registration number B 54 to distinguish it from the two other combs that were also found at Dublin Castle, but do not have an Ogham inscription. The comb made of bone has a length of 15.2 cm, a 3.4 cm wide and 1.1 cm thick (including side panels).

The Dublin Castle comb is a three-layer comb with five individual tooth plates. These are held together by two side plates that are attached to the side of the tooth plates by four iron rivets. The trapezoidal side panels have a slim C-shape and have a linear checkered decoration. The comb has an end plate on each long side that extends beyond the two ends of the side plates. For every 5 mm, measured at the base of the tooth and not at the tips of the teeth, there is an average of two to three teeth.

The Dublin Castle crest has the Ogham inscription ANE. Probably the name of the owner.

Specialty

The Dublin Castle Crest is one of the only eleven small finds mentioned in Ogham specialist literature to date, i.e. finds in which the Ogham characters are not carved into stone slabs and stone pillars (around 400), but rather into small objects (mainly everyday objects) . Six of these were discovered in Ireland, including the Dublin Castle Crest, namely the Ballyspellan brooch , the Ballinderry cube , the Ennis pearl , the Kilgulbin hanging bowl and the Tullycommon bone .

literature

  • Mairead Dunlevy: A Classification of Early Irish Combs. In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Archeology, Culture, History, Literature. Volume 88 C, 1988, pp. 341-422.
  • Katherine Forsyth : An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist. In: Beverley Ballin Smith et al. (Ed.): West over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. A Festschrift in Honor of Dr Barbara E. Crawford. (= The Northern World. 31). Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15893-1 , pp. 461-478.
  • Thomas Ferel Heffernan: Wood Quay. The Clash over Dublin's Viking Past. Austin / Texas 1988, ISBN 0-292-79042-2 .

References and comments

  1. ^ Forsyth, p. 468.
  2. ^ Dunlevy, p. 366.
  3. ^ Dunlevy, p. 366.
  4. ↑ Detailed drawing of an Irish three-layer comb with a precise description of the individual parts cf. Dunlevy, p. 344.
  5. ^ Dunlevy, p. 366 and p. 398.
  6. ^ Heffernan, p. 6 and Dunlevy, p. 366.
  7. ↑ Mentions and descriptions e.g. B. by Donal B. Buchanan , Katherine Stuart Forsyth , Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister , Barry Raftery