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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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while Nos. 9 and 13 areprobably derived from the cruciform ones. Lastly, No. 11 isa so-called bird fibula, the whole piece taking the aspect of aparrot-like creature with a pronounced hooked beak. Thefibulae on PI. xxxvi are of quite different types, affecting theshape of a round flat disc that may be ornamented in severaldifferent ways ; a saucer-shaped disc with the edges turned upall round ; a circular ring ; and a broad flat ring, or, if we liketo call it so, a disc with the centre pierced out. The first kind,Nos. 6, 10, is best called a disc fibula ; the second, Nos. 1,5,a saucer fibula, while No. 7 of which only the back is visible isa variation of this type called an applied fibula (p. 275) ; thethird kind, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, are ring or annularfibulae ; and the best name for the fourth kind, No. 8, is quoit fibula. These distinctive terms it is well to retain, asthe vague words round or circular, too often employed in XXXVII facing p. 247 TYPES NOT REPRESENTED AT BIFRONS
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/, 2, are Continental FIBULAE AT BIFRONS 247 descriptions, are of uncertain significance, and would applyequally well to all the sub-types on this plate. No. 12 on PI. xxxvi shows two fibulae of the saucer kindunited by a light chain. The brooches would be fixed one oneach shoulder and the chain would hang across the breast,possibly with some light pendant attached to it. This is afashion more in vogue among the Celtic peoplesx than amongthe Germans, though there are several instances in whichTeutonic fibulae show traces of attachments of the kind. Thespecially precious one, the Kingston fibula, see Frontispiece,has a loop by which a protective chain can be fastened to it, andsome f long fibulae presently to be discussed have similarloops at the end, while the sumptuous c ibis fibula in thetreasure of Petrossa, PI. xlviii, i (p. 279), has a golden chainattached. A particular form of brooch found in the Alpineregions north of Italy and probably Lombard has a transversearm projecting be

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