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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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.Ill) 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 ring-money.Gold 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. c.Many pieces present a surface of gold and silver in alternate rings,and* a certain number have a core of baser metal (copper or iron)concealed by a thin coating of gold. The Mountfield fragments(fig. 140) may be parts of bracelets, and several patterns are repre-sented in the find at Morvah, Cornwall. A rare form for Englandhas been found with others at Tisbury, Wilts, (fig. 141. cf. p. 39),
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Fig. li:2.—Gol.l c:oUar, Cintra, Lisbon. and is temporarily shown, with other antiquities bequeathed bySir Wollaston Franks, in the passage leading to this room(second metal Case on the right). Of foreign examples the most important is the splendid collar fromCintra (fig. 142), which resembles in form the triple bronze collarsof Scandinavia attributed to the seventh or sixth century, whilethe four cup-shaped projections are a feature of the Hallstattperiod and occur on the pommel of a bronze sword from Whitting-ham, Northumberland. The collar may therefore be assigned toabout the eighth century b. c. Spiral coils of wire, possibly a form GOLD ORNAMENTS 149 of ring-money, are shown from Italy and Spain : the former witha buUa of about the first century B.C., and the Latter with ornamentsfrom the grave of a child. The two gold tores of Gaidish originbelong definitely to the La Tene period (Iron age). Gold Ornament Room, Case K. At the back of the Case is a piece of gold armour (plate

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