Originally oak shafts linked the three bronze sections. A surviving fragment is inset with small strips of bronze in a herringbone pattern. The two sets of birds may be drawn from mythology. One represents two adult birds, resembling ravens, and the other a family of two adult and three young water birds. Bird images were used on a wide range of artefacts in Late Bronze Age Europe. Late Bronze Age, about 1090-900 BCE, Dunaverney, Co. Antrim Ireland (PE 1856,1222.1)
aperture=f2.8 focal length: 60.0 mm exposure 1/50 sec ISO: 2000