. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 505. Fig. 156. GOLD BRACELKT. Dolmen near Belz, Morbihan, Franco. i^ natural size. While it is not asserted tluit tlic working of gold was carried on in the Neolithic period, yet the fore- going patterns are ditfereut from most of those of the Bronze age. Many, apparently belonging to the Bronze age, are- simply round rods or bars of gold of sufBcient length to encircle the wrist, and which have been bent to that form (lig.
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 505. Fig. 156. GOLD BRACELKT. Dolmen near Belz, Morbihan, Franco. i^ natural size. While it is not asserted tluit tlic working of gold was carried on in the Neolithic period, yet the fore- going patterns are ditfereut from most of those of the Bronze age. Many, apparently belonging to the Bronze age, are- simply round rods or bars of gold of sufBcient length to encircle the wrist, and which have been bent to that form (lig. 157). Others have been made into tliiu sheets, crimped around the edges (fig. 158). Both these styles are identical with the bronze bracelets, and the places in whicli they were found and the objects with which they were associated concur in their assignment to the Bronze age. There are also many objects in gold—tor(j[nes and brace- lets—which show a different method of Avorking, and are sui)p()sed to have been of later date. Some were round, heavy, decorated, marked with zigzag, herringbone, clievron, etc. (fig. 159, a, b), some of them after the fashion of a coil of ro])e (fig. IGO, o, d), in others the ends were hammered square and enlarged (fig. IGO, />, 0). Ireland.—The Archteological Mu- seum in Dublin is probably the rich- est in gold objects of any in Euroi)e. One of its attractive displays is a series of bracelets, running from extremely large to extremely small. They consist of a rod of gold, larger iu the center, tapering gradu- ally to the ends, but with a head hammered down and spread, tlie ends being then brought more or less together (fig. 161), In the larger of these the rod would be nigh half an inch thick, and from that down. Some are large enough to go over the hand and so be worn on the wrist, or even on the aim, while the smaller ones in the series would iK)t go on the little finger. The evident fact that the.*-e small ones, though practically re]
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