lunulae

Updated: May 20, 2025

Whichever way the eastern civilization penetrated into Ireland, it left England practically untouched in her primitive barbarity. Of gold work, for which Ireland is especially famous, the principal feature in the bronze age was the lunula, a crescent-shaped flat gold ornament generally decorated at the ends of the crescent. These lunulae are found in profusion all over Ireland.

- The Glories of Ireland