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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

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Printing

Dimensions

Height: 234mm
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.

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.