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Culture: [Early Christian](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0ff3dt3t2p) Material: Stone Dims: L 8.4cm W 4.5cm Accession No: HCA 688 Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/) [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html) Partially complete mould for [casting](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300053104) small items of jewellery. It is a rectangular stone with one broken end. One face has 2 valves for buttons or pin heads of spiral design. Each is deeply cut to a rounded point with 3 concentric steps. The outline of a third valve is visible. The central valve has an etched outline of a large ring. Two valves have the beginnings of incised pouring channels. Such casting moulds date in Ireland from Prehistory to Medieval times and are found in [ringforts](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300240365) and [crannógs](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300005679). [More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/2b1667ae-3466-3dcd-9164-c4e7f72d5d34/?s%3Dmould&pos=2).
