A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. UO.—Gold fragmpiit,Mountfield, Fre. 139.—Ciold clasp for thedress, Ireland. % 141.— .Id ,Wilts. :i limb, which alone was visible if Sir William Wildes theory as totheir use (fig. 139) is correct, is always striated longitudinally ; andin some cases the bow of the Scandinavian spectacle-brooch () has the same decoration, while its size and shape are in closeagreement. It is conceivaljle that the idea was imported fromDenmark or Sweden between the nint
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. UO.—Gold fragmpiit,Mountfield, Fre. 139.—Ciold clasp for thedress, Ireland. % 141.— .Id ,Wilts. :i limb, which alone was visible if Sir William Wildes theory as totheir use (fig. 139) is correct, is always striated longitudinally ; andin some cases the bow of the Scandinavian spectacle-brooch () has the same decoration, while its size and shape are in closeagreement. It is conceivaljle that the idea was imported fromDenmark or Sweden between the ninth and seventh century b. c:.Part of a rich hoard found at Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, ishere shown, consisting of bracelets of a simple character, and alarge series of penannular pieces commonly known as rings and bracelets of the true Bronze period are often ofthin strands like wire, while the thick and heavy ring-money is L 2 348 GOLD ORNAMENT ROOM CASE J in Scandinavia referred to the early Iron age, after 500 b. pieces present a surface of gold and silver in alternate rings,and* a certain number have a co
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