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Lunulae Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2016

Joan J. Taylor
Joan J. Taylor
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Newnham College, Cambridge
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Lunulae are commonly considered to be Early Bronze Age gold sheet collars produced solely in Ireland in imitation of jet and amber spacer-plate necklaces found elsewhere in the British Isles. Decorated with a distinctive style of incised geometric designs, they are more carefully and intricately ornamented than Beaker gold sheet-work, but less sophisticated than the superior Wessex gold objects. The term lunula has come to distinguish the Early Bronze Age gold crescent collar from the term Halskragen, a probably distantly-related type of copper crescent collar found in north-west Germany.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 36 , December 1970 , pp. 38 - 81
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1970

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