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From Southside, Lanarkshire

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This gold collar, also called a lunula, is one of two found at Southside in Lanarkshire. It is a high status ornament, worn sometime between 2300 and 2000 BC.

The collar was made by hammering out the gold to a thin sheet, then decorating it with incised lines and punched dots. The plain panel between the lines has been hammered and roughened.

Gold collars or lunulae were originally made in Ireland, but were imported and copied throughout Britain, where they certainly functioned as symbols of power. Some of the decorative patterns were adopted from beaker pottery.

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