7th – 8th century AD
Stone lamp
Stone lamp
Stone lamp
Glendalough, Co. Wicklow This granite lamp was found in the 1840s in Glendalough. Lamps made from Wicklow granite were a distinctive craft with granite lamps used to light churches found in excavations at Templeteenaun and Knockatemple near Glendalough.
7th – 8th century AD.RIA1908:237
See this object at our exhibition Glendalough: Power, Prayer & Pilgrimage
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Archaeology
Previous artefact:
Silver penny of SITRIC REX DUBLIN