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Hoards of the Irish Later Bronze Age regularly include different forms of rings and chain links that historically have been identified vaguely as tack components or 'ornaments'; these occur, too, as stray finds. If, however, they are examined in their wider European context, it becomes clear that some represent components of a hitherto unrecognised class of Irish composite copper-alloy ornament, dating from the tenth--eighth/seventh centuries BC, and exemplified by the Derrane, Co. Roscommon, chain complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]