A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . undoubtedly a ceremonial object, and connected with sun-worship, so that the discovery of more than one such disc (fig. 146)in Ireland shows the extent of the cult before the first , the Danish example being dated by Dr. Sophus Miiller beforethe year 1000 Intentional damage had been done to the discand car before deposit in the Trundholm moss, and they may beregarded as a votive offering. A damaged disc with gold covering 152 GOLD OKNAMENT ROOM : CASE L has been found in Irel
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . undoubtedly a ceremonial object, and connected with sun-worship, so that the discovery of more than one such disc (fig. 146)in Ireland shows the extent of the cult before the first , the Danish example being dated by Dr. Sophus Miiller beforethe year 1000 Intentional damage had been done to the discand car before deposit in the Trundholm moss, and they may beregarded as a votive offering. A damaged disc with gold covering 152 GOLD OKNAMENT ROOM : CASE L has been found in Ireland ; and that here illustrated has beenbroken across the centre. The ornament on those from Irelandis if anything later, and does not include the si:)iral (p. 96). Thebronze disc has lugs on the margin exactly in the same positionas in the Danish exami^le, the lower one being for the purpose offixing the disc to the axle of the carriage, the other for holding thehorses rein (fig. 147). It lacks, however, the gold plate, which wasno doubt pressed into the pattern : and the Irish gold discs were. Fig. 147.—Sun-diso on model c;iriiai;e. 1 probably fixed to a bronze foundation. The cruciform pattern ontwo of them is a well-known solar symljol, and the other two^maywell have been intended to repiresent the sun. Portico: Canoes. Under the portico, on the east, outside the Hall door, are three dug-out canoes which probably date from the Bronze Iselong to a comn^on type, formed out of a tree-trunk splitlengthwise, the work of excavating the interior being performedby tools of stone or bronze, and i^ossibly by fire. The largest ofthe three (fig. 148) was found in 1834 in a drain which probablyrepresents an ancient course of the Arun between North andSouth Stoke, the exact site being about 150 yards from thepresent sti-eam. It is about 35 ft. long, nearly 2 ft. deep, 4| in the middle, and 42in. thick at the bottom. Three barsacross the bottom inside gave additiona
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