A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities (1904) (14780424041)

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Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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.—Gold armlet, Bral)alisl), Baiitiy, Co. Cork. at Dublin, show an early type of ornament, and two specimenshave been found in Cornwall with a bronze (or copper) celt of primi-tive form. The greater part of the gold ornaments exhibited comes fromIreland, l)ut very few pieces have any historj, and the archaeologicalvalue of the series is thereby impaired. It is significant that manyof the gold-finds in England have been in the south-west, whileWales, also within easy reach of Ireland, has also been productive.The metal was not confined to any one district in Ireland, but wasfound or traded all over the island, which has been regarded asthe El Dorado of the ancient world. According to M. SalomonEeinach, this industry of the Iberian population was ruined bya foreign invasion about 1000 B.C., and some Keltic-speakingbarbarians (possibly the Goidels) arrested the development of Ire-land till the advent of more invaders some time before 200 B.C.,when the Late Keltic culture was introduced.
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Plate IX Celt, Sword, and Gold Bracelets, Beaciiy Head, Sussex.(^Case C, ami Gold Oi-uamciit Room, sec pp. 78, 88.) GOLD OENAMENTS 147 Gold Ornament Room, Case J. To the left are Irish specimens, including bracelets of a peculiartype with hollow conical or cup-shaped terminals (fig. 138); andforms intermediate between these and the small dress-fasteners,showing some connection between them, though the exact use ofmany pieces is still obscure. A cup-shaped end is sometimes seenon bronze pins in Ireland (p. 27) and abroad, while the ends of thedress-fasteners are flat, though not in the same plane. The central

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