An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. showing the distribution of the spiral in Great Britain and Ireland. (After Coffey.). 202 PREHISTORIC ART The distribution of this spiral ornament will be seen ata glance on the map (Fig. 232)/ and it is in harmonywith the view that the spiral reached Ireland by wayof Scotland and Northern England from Scandinavia,where it was quite a common motive in the decoration oftools, weapons, and personal ornaments in the Bronze Age(Figs. 233, 234, 235, 236).^ The power of the simpleunaided spiral to produce most pleasing and elegant effec
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. showing the distribution of the spiral in Great Britain and Ireland. (After Coffey.). 202 PREHISTORIC ART The distribution of this spiral ornament will be seen ata glance on the map (Fig. 232)/ and it is in harmonywith the view that the spiral reached Ireland by wayof Scotland and Northern England from Scandinavia,where it was quite a common motive in the decoration oftools, weapons, and personal ornaments in the Bronze Age(Figs. 233, 234, 235, 236).^ The power of the simpleunaided spiral to produce most pleasing and elegant effectsis well illustrated by designs on the hilts of Danish spiral no doubt reached Scandinavia from the Medi-terranean, and by the same routes as brought amber from the Baltic to that sea, that is fromthe head of the Adriatic, either byway of the Tyrol, Bavaria, Bohemia,and the Elbe valley, or throughCarniola, Styria, and Moravia toFig. diadem. ^\^^ Qder, for Spiral Ornamentation Denmark. is found in Bavaria^ and Bohemia*and in Hungary, where it occurs in profusion. Thesimilarity of the spiral ornament of these different co
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