O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Pilot publishing company · leaf 256
from M. Lenihan, Esq., of Limerick, it is now in thenational museum. It is a flat disc two feet three and three-quarter inches in diameter. It has six concentric rings formedby about two hundred small hollow bosses about an inch indiameter; and in the centre a large somewhat flattened boss,six… … No. 41. ANCIENT BRONZE SHIELD. across the back of the central boss. On the back of the shield,in the third circle from the rim, are two bits of bronze soriveted that the heads of the rivets form two of the smallobverse bosses. These bits of bronze served to sling the shieldover the shoulders.…
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