A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . st attachesto the crescent-shaped ornaments, sometimes called lunulae(fig. 137), which are undoubtedly of Irish origin. They wereworn on the neck, and not as diadems on the heads, and are ofvery rare occurrence on the Continent, examples from France(Depts. Manche, Cotes-du-Nord, and Vendee) and Denmark (Zea-land and Fiinen) showing intercourse with Ireland either by 146 GOLD ORNAMENT ROOM way of Britain or more probably direct by sea. Ships carvedon the rocks of Sweden as well as at New Grange
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . st attachesto the crescent-shaped ornaments, sometimes called lunulae(fig. 137), which are undoubtedly of Irish origin. They wereworn on the neck, and not as diadems on the heads, and are ofvery rare occurrence on the Continent, examples from France(Depts. Manche, Cotes-du-Nord, and Vendee) and Denmark (Zea-land and Fiinen) showing intercourse with Ireland either by 146 GOLD ORNAMENT ROOM way of Britain or more probably direct by sea. Ships carvedon the rocks of Sweden as well as at New Grange and Dowth,Co. Meath, and Gavrinis, Morbihan, would in themselves indicateextensive navigation; and attention has already been directedto various objects of the early Bronze age imported from theseislands into Scandinavia. Irish gold may have been barteredfor amber from Jutland, but amber was also found on our owneast coast, and may have been sufficient for the local gold seems to have been in general use quite early in theBronze age, for the crescents, of which over 30 are preserved. Fig. 13S.—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 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 , and some Keltic-speakingbarbarians (possibly the Goidels) arrested the development of Ir
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