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Drawings Bronze Age gold lunula(e) from Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.94

Artist/Designer/Maker

Sandes, T - Artist

Production date

1786

Material

Paper
Watercolour
Pen
Ink

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 247mm
Width: 298mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Plate of Gold dug up in a Field at Castle Ray in the County of Down in Ireland.

Inscription content

T Sandes delin Jan... 1786.

References

Reference (free text)

Michael Herity, 'Early Finds of Irish Antiquities from the Minute-Books of the Society of Antiquaries of London', Antiquaries Journal 49 (1969): 1-21. See especially p. 14. Illustration, pl. XII, between pp. 16 and 17.