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    The Bronze Age in Ireland
    The Bronze Age in Ireland
    The Bronze Age in Ireland
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    The Bronze Age in Ireland

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    Release dateApr 1, 2009
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      The Bronze Age in Ireland - George Coffey

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      Title: The Bronze Age in Ireland

      Author: George Coffey

      Release Date: October 11, 2008 [EBook #26880]

      Language: English

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      THE BRONZE AGE IN IRELAND

      THE BRONZE AGE

      IN IRELAND

      BY

      GEORGE COFFEY

      MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

      HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND

      KEEPER OF IRISH ANTIQUITIES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM

      AND PROFESSOR R.H.A. DUBLIN

      WITH ELEVEN PLATES AND EIGHTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

      HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., Limited,

      104 GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN

      SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.,

      LONDON

      1913

      Printed at the

      By Ponsonby and Gibbs.

      PREFACE

      In this book on the Bronze Age in Ireland I have collected and collated all my work on the period. Much of it I have already published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and elsewhere. I have long felt the need of a book on the Bronze Age in Ireland, as hitherto none has appeared dealing adequately with the archæology of that period in this country.

      Within the last few years it has been recognized that the Bronze-Age civilization in Europe did not consist of a series of isolated communities, each developing its own type of objects and decorations, but that there was a community of ideas and forms extending from Mycenæ all over the European continent.

      I have described the various forms of Bronze-Age implements of peace and of war found in Ireland, and have shown how they are connected with similar types on the continent of Europe. M. J. Déchelette, of the Roanne Museum, one of the first authorities on the Bronze Age, agrees with me in ascribing a Mycenæan origin to certain forms of Bronze-Age implements.

      How this Mycenæan influence penetrated to Ireland is a matter on which there is some difference of opinion, and possibly new discoveries may throw additional light on the problem. As I have shown both in this and in former works, the most probable route seems to be that of the Danube and the Elbe, and thence by way of Scandinavia to Ireland. It is to be hoped that now—with a concentrating of Irish interests on Irish affairs a new impetus will be given to the study of the history of our country, and that many workers may be found in the fields of archæology and of all subjects connected with our past.

      In my Guide to the Celtic Antiquities of the Christian Period I have given the history of Irish art in the Christian period; in New Grange (Brugh na Boine) and other Incised Tumuli in Ireland, the influence of Crete and the Ægean in the extreme west of Europe in early times, I have given as much as is known of the pre-Christian period up to the Bronze Age; and in this, my latest work, which has been much interrupted by illness, I have endeavoured to complete the history of ancient art in Ireland.

      I have to thank the Councils of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland for the loan of a number of blocks. In other cases drawings have been made direct from objects in the National Museum by Miss E. Barnes.

      The plates are from photographs taken by the photographer of the National Museum.

      In offering this book to the public I must express my gratitude to Mr. E. C. R. Armstrong, to whom I am indebted for his unvarying kindness and sympathy, and for much valuable assistance both in the matter and form of the work.

      GEORGE COFFEY.

      CONTENTS

      page

      Chapter I, 1

      Introduction; Chronology of the Irish Bronze Age.

      Chapter II, 6

      Transitional Copper Period; Localities where native copper is found in Ireland; Finds of copper celts; Moulds for casting flat celts; List of localities where Irish copper celts have been found; Halberds; Localities where found; Types; Analyses; Continental examples; Probable derivation of Irish halberds from Spain.

      Chapter III, 23

      First and later periods of the Bronze Age; Evolution of the bronze celt; Ornamentation of bronze celts; Palstave with double loops; Anvil and hammers; Spear-heads; Evolution from the knife-dagger; Type derived from the rapier; Leaf-shaped spear-heads; Spear-heads with apertures in the blade; Moulds for casting spear-heads; Ferules for spear-butts.

      Chapter IV, 46

      Irish gold: Account of Irish gold deposits; Lunulæ: General description of; Distribution.

      Chapter V, 56

      Daggers and rapiers; Evolution of the dagger and rapier blade; Handles of daggers and rapiers.

      Chapter VI, 62

      Gold gorgets; Gold sun-disks; Gold balls; Clare find; Penannular rings and ring-money; Ring-money.

      Chapter VII, 71

      Leaf-shaped swords; Division of types; Absence of moulds for casting; Bronze chapes; Winged chapes; Shields; Circular bronze shields; Shield of wood; Leather Shield.

      Chapter VIII, 78

      Torcs; Twisted torcs; Distribution of torcs; Ribbon torcs; Plain torcs.

      Chapter IX, 80

      Bronze-age finds; List of well-authenticated Irish finds.

      Chapter X, 88

      Bronze trumpets; Types and derivation of Irish trumpets; Sickles; Discussion of types; Importance of, with regard to date of agriculture; Disk-headed pins.

      Chapter XI, 94

      Bronze-age pottery; Food-vessels; Derivation of, from Neolithic type; Cinerary urns; Incense cups.

      Chapter XII, 101

      Bronze-age ornamentation in Ireland; Discussion of the ornamentation at New Grange; M. Déchelette’s views as to its origin compared with those of the author.

      Index, 105

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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