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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
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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bly have exercised aninfluence that lasted till the evolution of the long fibula.On a late Roman ivory at Vienna PL xxxiii, 3 (p. 243), afigure of Roma is shown wearing a square headed fibulafoot upwards, and male figures on the famous ivory diptych atHalberstadt (p. 375 f.) fasten their cloaks in the same fashion.At Bifrons cemetery the explorers reported that the positionof the long brooches showed that they had been worn in thisway. The bird brooch, PL xxxv, 11, has the pin hinged atthe foot so that, when worn with .the head of the creature in itsnatural position the pin would point upwards. It stands toreason of course that this cannot always have been the case,for the design would not admit of it in instances where thehuman face, for example, was exhibited. PL xxxiv, 7, must,one would think, have been meant to be worn head upwards.The fact here noticed as to the placing of the brooches has1 H. Schetelig, Cruciform Brooches, p. 107. XLVI facing p. 271 PLATE AND EQUAL ARMED FIBULAE
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/, 2, 7, 8, g, 10, are Continental EQUAL ARMED FIBULAE 271 been taken account of in arranging the plates, which show theobjects in both the possible positions. This problem of the relations in position of the £ head andthe foot of the fibulae, when worn on the figure, leads us byan easy transition to the so-called equal armed fibula, aboutwhich no such question can arise. Some examples of thiswere shown PI. xxxvn, 5, 6, 7, while two or three continentalones have been added to PL xlvi as Nos. 7, 8, 9, and of agroup from Stockholm a perspective view is given PL xlvi, 10.These are called by the French fibules ansees because theyresemble box handles that could be screwed down through thetwo plates on each side of the central bow. In the examplePI. xxxvii, 7 (p. 247), the two plates are set at right angles tothe bow instead of in a line with it. This actual piece, fromKempston, Bedfordshire, is a comparatively degenerate exampleof a limited class of fibulae practically confined to one or

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