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Irish Gold Crescents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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Since their first publication in 1757 (Archaeologia, ii, 32, pl. ii), the gold crescents characteristic of the Early Bronze Age of Ireland have remained in part unexplained; and the various names suggested for them reflect the prevailing uncertainty as to their use and significance. In his recently published Catalogue of Irish Gold Ornaments, our Fellow Mr. Armstrong has brought together all the existing material, and on consideration adopts the view that these gold crescents were worn as collars. They at first went under the name of lunulae or little moons, and a favourite term in later years has been lunette, which is generally used in French for ‘telescope’, and though more manageable than lunula, is not so fitted for international use as ‘crescent’.
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