One of the Southside Lunulae. Copyright: Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland

Lunulae are crescent-shaped collars made of sheet gold. They date from the Early Bronze Age, about 2500-2000 BC. Most of them have been found in Ireland.

However among the few examples known from Scotland are two lunulae found around 1860 on the farm of Southside near Coulter, right on the Lanarkshire/Peeblesshire boundary!

The two lunulae are decorated with a dot-line motif applied with a slightly hollowed punch. Comparison of the punch marks on the two collars indicates that they were produced by the same tool. They are therefore almost certainly the work of the same craftsman.

The Southside lunulae are on display in the Museum of Scotland., Edinburgh