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ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT.
No. 40.
ANCIENT BRONZE SHIELD.[1]
- ↑ "A very beautiful bronze shield, found in a bog forming a peninsula or island in Lough Gurr, in the county of Limerick. The Royal Irish Academy having purchased this beautiful shield from M. Lenihan, Esq., of Limerick, it is now in the national museum. It is a flat disc two feet three and three-quarter inches in diameter. It has six concentric rings formed by about two hundred small hollow bosses about an inch in diameter; and in the centre a large somewhat flattened boss, six inches internal diameter, called by the French Ombilic d'Umbo and by the Germans the Schildnabel. The rim is an inch and three-quarters in width. The handle is fastened
