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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
It has been suggested that the comparatively numerous finds of gold in Wiltshire barrows are due to their having been, more or less, on the direct route of the traffic in Irish gold and other objects. On Mere Down, north of Gillingham, a skeleton was found in a grave under a small barrow. With it was a beaker of type B, also a flat, tanged copper dagger, a piece of worked bone, and two gold discs of a well-known Irish type. The surviving disc is very thin, and has embossed upon it an irregular cruciform ornament enclosed within a circle, and a row of very small punch-marks round the edge (fig. 1).
page 68 note 1 See Coffey, , The Bronze Age in Ireland, and Catalogue of Irish Gold Ornaments, by Armstrong, E. C. R., F.S.A., 1920.Google Scholar
page 68 note 2 See Armstrong and Coffey, as above; Déchelette, Manuel, ii, pp. 415, 458.
page 69 note 1 Proc. Soc. Ant., xx, 6; Déchelette, op. cit., p. 416.
page 69 note 2 Armstrong. opp. cit., p. 37.
page 69 note 3 Archaeologia, vol. lxv, p. 42, fig. 56.
page 69 note 4 Wilts. Arch. Mag., vol. 35, p. 8, fig. 5.
page 70 note 1 Op. cit., p. 44–5.
page 70 note 2 References to these discoveries will be found in the Wilts. Arch. Mag., vol. 35, p. 15.
page 70 note 3 Manuel, ii, p. 371.