While bronze-age and iron-age musical instruments, specifically horns, have been found throughout Europe and Scandinavia, the lack of mouthpieces had led historians to believe that Ireland went through a "musical dark age." Ó Foghlú used the exact measurements of the artifact to produce a 3D copy which he then used with his own horn. He said it produced a "richer, more velvety tone," and feels that the lack of recovered instruments in the area is due not to a supposed dark age, but because the instruments were "ritually dismantled and laid down as offerings when their owner died."