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Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 14.5. — C4old bracelet witli ring-money, Ely, Climbs. a style resembling that seen on the bucklers from Wales andelsewhere (Cases 3, 4, ti, 7) ; but a richer variety of patterns ishere employed, consisting of circular bosses of two sizes, pyra-midal rivet-heads, pointed ovals, and other bosses of quadrangularshape, separated by simple raised lines. It was probably notearlier than the shields, and the presence of iron may indicateeven a later date. A discovery of this kind demonstrates in astriking manner the abundance of gold at the end of our Bronzeperiod. It is obvious that before a warrior would decorate hishorse Mith the precious metal, he had doubtless satisfied his ownpersonal needs in tliis direction. The crescent necklets in this Case have been already referred to(p. 14.5).
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M :? GOLD ORNAMENTS 151 Gold Ornament Boom, Case L. Collars and armlets of twisted metal (Latin, torquis), the fasteningbeing either a pair of simple hooks or long bars thickening towardsthe end and interlocking. At the junction of the tore illustratedfrom Suffolk (fig. 144) is seen a piece of ring-money, as also ona larger specimen from Lincolnshire, while a bracelet (fig. 145) withsix such pieces, found with part of a bronze rapier, is shown inthis Case. The twisting of the metal was no doubt to give

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