Killyfaddy Horn Tubes

Specimen Detail | SD251

Find Spot: Killyfaddy, nr. Clogher, Co. Tyrone

Current Location: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Dating of Item: not known, possibly end of Bronze Age or

Iron Age

Based on: Morphological similarity to Iron-Age rivetted horns

Current Location: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: 2.7m long cylindrical wooden tube, 50mm outer diameter, made in four roughly equal yards. These made by hollowing out in two parts then putting together and binding with bronze strip which is pinned into wooden yards.

Related Material: Morphological similarity to Iron-Age rivetted horns: SD211, 225, 224, 225, 229. Similarity in construction with SD218 and 251.

Citations: Wilde, 1857, 244; Schmidt, 1915, 130; Oldeberg, 1947, 81.