entity · site_bi_mooghaun_north
Mooghaun North gold hoard
Very large later Bronze Age gold hoard from a wetland or lakeside context in County Clare.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1150 BCE–750 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Late Bronze Age gold hoards: Mooghaun and Dowris — National Museum of IrelandCuratorial synthesis of major Irish gold and bronze hoards and their depositional settings.
Locator: Mooghaun and Dowris sections; object totals and context - informs · defines or contextualizes
Mooghaun North gold hoard collection records — British MuseumCollection records and dating for surviving ornaments from the Mooghaun North hoard.
Locator: Culture/period, findspot, curator comments and associated records
Research description
More than 150 ornaments were recorded in the nineteenth century, but much was dispersed or melted. Surviving documentation establishes extraordinary scale while limiting reconstruction of the exact depositional arrangement and original total.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Depositional meaning contested
The physical deposit is secure but its intended meaning or duration is disputed.
Why does this record have this property?
The deposit is archaeologically significant, but cargo loss, storage, offering, closure, repeated accumulation or other mechanisms require context-specific testing.
- Late Bronze Age gold hoards: Mooghaun and Dowris
supports assignment · Mooghaun and Dowris sections; object totals and context - Mooghaun North gold hoard collection records
supports assignment · Culture/period, findspot, curator comments and associated records
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Late Bronze Age gold hoards: Mooghaun and Dowris — National Museum of IrelandCuratorial synthesis of major Irish gold and bronze hoards and their depositional settings.
Locator: Mooghaun and Dowris sections; object totals and context - supports · defines or contextualizes
Mooghaun North gold hoard collection records — British MuseumCollection records and dating for surviving ornaments from the Mooghaun North hoard.
Locator: Culture/period, findspot, curator comments and associated records
Referenced records
- South-west Ireland archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_mooghaun_north · geography assertion