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This failure to penetrate far from the coasts of England and Brittany 

 may point to early raids ; but the copper and tin of Cornwall, as well as the 

 tin deposits of Brittany, as well as the general trade through Brittany, might 

 explain the finds as indications of the early seeking of the gold deposits of 

 Ireland. 



DISTRIBUTION f^ 



LUNUL/E '^^ ^ 



The presence of lunulse in Cornwall and in Brittany is significant. 

 The new view recently put forward exhaustively by Monsieur Louis Siret, 

 that in the tin deposits of the islands off the coast of Brittany are to be 

 sought the Cassiterides, perhaps explains the occurrence of lunulse in 

 Brittany.^ 



We may provisionally take 1200 to 1500 B.C. as a date for the lunulae, 

 though the later date may be thought perhaps too late. 



1 L'Antliiopologie, torn, xix., 1908, p. 129. 



