Explore: Prehistoric Goldwork

distinctively Irish large "gorgets", and bullae amulets. After the Bronze Age goldwork almost ceased to be produced in Ireland; the Irish deposits may well have

between the museum's two floors View from the centre court overlooking the goldwork exhibition hall Treasury room The NMI has a number of large permanent exhibits

work on Bronze Age gold working, especially her 1980 monograph Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles. Born in the United States, Taylor completed her doctoral

decorated geometrically along the ridges and troughs of the corrugations. Goldwork all but disappears in the Iron Age, except for the late and enigmatic Broighter

Macmillan. p. 18. ISBN 0-7171-2829-6. Taylor, Joan J. (1980). Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 65

century (See: El Dorado). One of the most valued artifacts of Pre-Columbian goldwork is the so-called Poporo Quimbaya, a small (23.5 × 11.4 cm), hollow, devotional

the Museo del Oro in the Colombian capital Bogotá, shows the skilled goldworking of the inhabitants of the Altiplano. The Muisca were the only pre-Columbian

2003. p. 294. ISBN 3-926982-95-0. Eluère, Christiane (December 1985). "Goldwork of the Iron Age in 'Barbarian' Europe". Gold Bulletin. 18 (4): 150. doi:10

Flintshire, North Wales" Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 19, 161–79 Taylor, Joan J. (1980), Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles, Gulbenkian archaeological

and, as the grandest climax, the Varna cemetery with its stunning early goldwork. Now the boot is very much on the other foot and it is the Varna complex