WASHINGTON: Researchers have discovered a gold route between the U.K. and Ireland, suggesting that trading between the two countries has been in existence since as early as 2500 B.C. or the early Bronze Age.
Measuring the chemical composition of gold found in Ireland, the researchers showed that artifacts were actually made with gold imported from Cornwall, not locally mined. Gold deposits were abundant in Ireland and workers had more than enough knowledge of working with the metal so it was believed that, at the time, a preference for more “exotic” gold was in place so the metal was imported from southern Britain and Cornwall.
The researchers also highlighted in their study that value for gold was not universal at the time, with belief systems playing a bigger role in determining value than economics. No real uniform value for gold was set until at least the first gold coins were used almost 2,000 years later.
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