An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 254.—Bronze disk. Ireland. Fig. 255.—Gold-leaf disk. Ireland. sun (Fig. 256). Another gold disk, 2 inches in diameter,comes from the Isle of Man. Its centre is plain, but there are three concentric rings ofdots near the edge. Thestriking similarity of thesebronze sun discs is strongcorroborative evidence ofcommunication between Ire-land and Denmark in theBronze Age, and are alsoevidence of the existence ofSun worship in both thoseFig. sun disk. Ireland. countries at this period. The wide distribution of (^old in Britain in the Br

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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 254.—Bronze disk. Ireland. Fig. 255.—Gold-leaf disk. Ireland. sun (Fig. 256). Another gold disk, 2 inches in diameter,comes from the Isle of Man. Its centre is plain, but there are three concentric rings ofdots near the edge. Thestriking similarity of thesebronze sun discs is strongcorroborative evidence ofcommunication between Ire-land and Denmark in theBronze Age, and are alsoevidence of the existence ofSun worship in both thoseFig. sun disk. Ireland. countries at this period. The wide distribution of (^old in Britain in the Bronze ^ Proc. Soc. Anti(]. (1903), second series, xx., p. 6, Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7,and Plate, K. A. Smith, Sun Disks of the Bronze Age in the BritishMuseum ; Revue Anht^otogigue (1909), p. 309, Dechelette, La Cultedu Soleil aux Temps Prehistoriques .. GOLD IN THE BRONZE AGE 233 Age is shown by the discovery of ornaments of theprecious metal in no less than fifteen English counties,from Cornwall and Kent to Northumberland, and in nine

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