ryaner wrote: moss wrote:
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/general/series/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.
It reminded me at once of the gold 'lozenge' found in the Bush Barrow near Stonehenge and I'm afraid I haven't read where that gold is thought to originate from. Its a given though that trade between the British Isles what we now call Europe was prolific - and Welsh gold did spring to mind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Liqvwp34SFykXLVvaXjRsw
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