Object: Lunula
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, No. 2, Plate I, Mus. Ref. 135. Wilde's Cat. 8.
Site: Ireland, Co Kildare, Dunfierth (barony of Carbury)
County: County Kildare
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 63.87
Composition: gold
Associations: Found with Nos. 1, 3 & 4, Plate I, in hard gravel, apparently the remains of a tochar or ancient road through a boggy field. The Museum Register states that these were forwarded by Mrs. Tyrell of Ballinderry & that they were found "together with several bones."
Description: This lunula has been restored: one half only was at first discovered, the second not being obtained till many months later. The finder had cut a piece out of the upper edge, to make a ring for a pig's snout: this has been restored.