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Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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e exercised an influence. Dr. Salin1 has noted theappearance of a round head of modest development on somefibulae of this kind, of III, and it is noteworthy that there wasfound at Basset Down, Wilts, together with some Anglo-Saxonobjects of fairly early date and a spoon of Roman style, a smallbronze gilt fibula with a round head of a type earlier than thecharacteristic Teutonic forms. This is an example of whatDr. Salin refers to, and the reader will find it figured later onPI. clv, 12, 14 (p. 563). Pieces of this kind may be ulti-mately responsible for the round head of the Germanic fibula. This difference in the shape of the heads assumes consider-able importance when it is observed that as a rule the squarehead belongs to the north of Europe,2 whereas the semi- 1 Tbierornamentik, p. 10. 2 Bei den nordgermanischen Volkern ... entstanden die spater allgemeinbeliebten Fibeln mit rechteckiger Kopfplatte. Salin, Tbierornamentik, p. yy. XXXIX MISCELLANEOUS ROUND AND SQUARE HEADED FIBULAE
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Approximately the natural sizesj, 6, 7, are Continental THE RADIATING FIBULA 255 circular one is rather Gothic, South German and Frankish inits affinities. We have now at any rate come to understand the originand original significance of the knobs which project beyondthe outline of the semicircular and rectangular plates that formthe heads of so many of our Anglo-Saxon fibulae. On theBifrons plates the semicircular head is represented by PI. xxxv,Nos. 1 to 4 and 6 to 8. There are three knobs in Nos. 3, 6, 7and 8, five in Nos. 1 and 4, while there were only two in No. 2,and these are no longer mere knobs but have been turned intothe heads of birds with hooked beaks. Reasons will be given(p. 526) for regarding this bird-beak motive as of Gothicorigin, and examples will be given showing the decorative useof the projecting head on various objects especially of SouthGerman and Gothic provenance. The remarkable piecePI. xxxix, 1, found in 1906 at Market Overton, Rutland, isof a pronounced S

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