Drawings Bronze Age gold lunula(e) from Ireland
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.95
Artist/Designer/Maker
Pococke, Richard, Rev Dr - Attributed to
Production date
1755
1773
1773
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Printing
Dimensions
Height: 234mm
Width: 292mm
Width: 292mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
From a plate of gold weighing 1 oz: 16 dwt found in a bog in Ireland anno 1755 now in ye collection of Richard Pococke LLD archdeacon of Dublin.
Vide Archæologia Vol. II. p. 36.
Vide Archæologia Vol. II. p. 36.
References
Reference (free text)
Richard Pococke, 'An Account of Some Antiquities Found in Ireland', Archaeologia 2 (1773): 32-41.
Illustration (Engraving), pl. II, opp. p. 36.
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 pp. 17-18.
Illustration, fig. a, pl. XI, between pp. 16 and 17.
Reference (free text)
Thomas Campbell, A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland (Dublin : W Whitestone, 1778), 476-8.
Illustration (Engraving), fig. 1, opp. p. 478.