Mary Cahill and Greer Ramsey present the case for gold workshop practice in the Late Bronze age in Ireland
While it is impossible to know how many gold objects were produced in Ireland during the period known as the Bronze Age
(c. 2400–700 BC), over a thousand individual artifacts survive in public collections in museums from Dublin to Sydney and from Los Angeles to New York. The vast bulk of this incredible collection is housed in the National Museum of Ireland, with notable collections in the Ulster Museum, Belfast and the British Museum, London. Smaller collections, scattered in various British and North American museums, mostly relate to the activities of private collectors and dealers.
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