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The lunula is made of decorated gold and dated to 2200-2000 BC and is one of the earliest gold ornaments from Wales. [1] Other estimates suggest 2400-2000 BC of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. [2] The lunula is the heaviest lunula from the islands of Britain and Ireland, weighing 185g. [3] Llanllyfni lunula.
Gold lunula from Schulenburg, Germany, Provincial, linear group. 3rd millennium BC. Of the more than a hundred gold lunulae known from Western Europe, more than eighty are from Ireland; [4] it is possible they were all the work of a handful of expert goldsmiths, though the three groups are presumed to have had different creators. Several ...
In Ireland, lunulae were probably replaced as neck ornaments firstly by gold torcs, found from the Irish Middle Bronze Age, and then in the Late Bronze Age by the spectacular "gorgets" of thin ribbed gold, some with round discs at the side, of which 9 examples survive, 7 in the National Museum of Ireland. [9]
Date: 29 April 2023, 17:41:14: Source: Edited version of: File:Gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Wales, 2400-2000 BC (1).jpg: Author: Hermann, R. (2022). Weight regulation ...
Llanllyfni (Welsh pronunciation ⓘ) is a village and a community in Gwynedd, Wales. It is in the historic county of Caernarfonshire . The community consists of the villages of Drws-y-coed , Nantlle , Nasareth , Nebo , Penygroes , Talysarn and the village of Llanllyfni itself. [ 2 ]
There are also calls to return the Mold Cape (currently housed in London), Llanllyfni lunula, the Trawsfynydd Tankard (in Liverpool), Red Book of Hergest (in Oxford) and the Red Lady of Paviland (in Oxford), Bardsey crown (in Liverpool), and Owain Glyndŵr's Pennal Letter (in Paris, France) to a museum in Wales. [31] [32]
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It lies in the community of Llanllyfni, and nearby villages are Llanllyfni, Carmel, Talysarn, Nantlle, Tanrallt, Nebo, and Groeslon. [3] It is the site of Nantlle Vale F.C., which used to be managed by the professional wrestler and promoter Orig Williams, better known by his ring name of "El Bandito". The club's former social complex has in ...