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workings. As well as Wicklow there are six other counties where gold has been found. The very large number of gold ornaments that have been found in Ireland is therefore not surprising. The ancient literature of Ireland contains many references to gold ornaments and payments of gold by weight. It is interesting to note that the tradition preserved in the Book of Leinster, a ms. of the twelfth century, refers the first smelting of gold in

the day, ￡3,675. Since the workings were abandoned by the Government, the district has been worked at intervals by companies, and at other times by the peasants; the total output sin

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collars known as lunul?. These have been found fairly evenl

found at Trenta, Ca

contains no less than thirty-seven examples. Several of these have been found and recorded during the past three or four years. As a rule the lunul? are engraved

o lunul? found together at Padstow, Cornwall, are said to have been found with a bronze celt of early type. The find is preserved in the Truro Museum, and is of th

Lunula found

s types of ornament; it will be noticed that

. Cavan. The case has greatly shrunk since it was found, as wh

Lunula, locali

neck, and may have been secured by a tie. It need not, however, be pointed out that they are quite out of place in a head-ornament; i

Lunula found

. The chain seems to have been ancient-at least it is stated to have been on it, as shown, when found; but, however ancient it may be, it is evident that it was m

l? are in Ireland and how rarely they have been found outs

or Lunula found at

unula found at

ago at Fauvillers, Luxembourg. This failure to penetrate far beyond the coasts of England and Brittany may point to early raids; but the copper and tin of Cornwall, as well as the tin

unula found in

g or known to have

(62 at

No. Re

0 (1). Trenta, Carrigans.

A. W. 12 (1). R.I.A

Penny Journal,

lster Journal of Arch?

e, R.I.A. 1900: 50 (1). Tartaraghan, Ulster Journal

1 R.I.

ele's Miscell

Enniskillen

Ballybay (

I.A. W. 10 (

hlone, R.I.A. W

1). Bailieborough (British Museum) (

I.A. 1896: 15 (1). Mu

erth, R.I.A. W.

I.A. 1877: 52 (1). Proc. R.

Glengall (Bri

1756, 1757 (3): R.I.A., Killarney,

(1), and one or perhaps two in M

in the British Museum, and about 6 in private collections, which are known to

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-Potan (Reinach, Revue

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), Nesmy (1) (Reinach

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e Distribution of Lunul

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lenburg (Leine)