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Re: Bronze Age Ireland: the country’s golden era
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ryaner wrote:
moss wrote:
Gold bling at Dublin National Museum, where did all that gold come from?


http://www.irishtimes.com/news[...]ountry-s-golden-era-1.1332517?


We borrowed it from the Germans and we're not giving it back. ;-)

Seriously though, I've been reading A New History of Ireland http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/[...]/NewHistoryofIreland/?view=usa
It truly is a tome - but prehistory gets a measly 130 pages (out of about 8,000). The section on the Irish bronze age by M.J. O'Kelly points to the startling amount of prehistoric gold hoards uncovered in Ireland and also talks of a golden age.

There's always been gold in them thar hills. Archaeologists getting their knickers in a twist is nothing new either. I love the national museum and go there often - the works themselves giving tremendous satisfaction, whatever the source of the material.


Actually you left a bit behind in Germany because we saw it at the Hochdorf Celtic burial and also the Stuttgart Museum Celtic exhibition - beautiful stuff as are the Irish ornaments - it is a lovely material for working in....
Given that the romans only found one gold mine (somewhere round Pumpsaint in Wales) why did they not come over to Ireland I wonder...


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Posted by moss
21st March 2013ce
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