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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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e inter-ment the warrior was not himself a Christian and had acquiredthe bronze-mounted horn by foray or traffic from France.Bronze plates of a similar kind with Christian figure subjectson them may be seen in the Museum at Worms and werefound also at Vermand in northern France.4 In the last case an early date, not later than 400 a.d., isindicated by the nature of the cemetery, and the piece inquestion must be the work not of a Frank but of a ChristianGallo-Roman craftsman. This is rendered practically certainby the fact that at Vermand and other cemeteries of the sameclass embossed bronze plates of the same kind have been foundwith figure subjects from classical mythology, that obviouslyproceed from Gallo-Roman workshops.5 A similar proven- 1 From Collectanea Antiqua, 11, pi. xxxvi. 2 The Arts in Early England, 11, 119. 3 ibid., 1, 258. 4 Pilloy, Etudes, 11, pi. 13 and p. 216. For the important Franco-Romancemetery at Vermand see postea (p. 549 f.). 5 ibid., 1, 169, 176 ; 11, pi. 12.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CROSS 117 ance may be confidently assumed for the examples at Stroodand Long Wittenham, and the Strood warrior may not havebeen a Jute of Kent but one of the raiders of the valleys ofthe Thames and its tributaries, about whom there is questionin a later chapter. The Long Wittenham stoup was found inthe grave of a boy together with a beaten bronze bowl of akind represented at Croydon in a probably pagan grave, andthe occupants of the Long Wittenham graves may belong tothe same section of the invaders as the warrior buried atStrood. The Wilton pendant discovered in Norfolk1 iscertainly Christian though it is not proved that it came froma grave. On the other hand in the Kentish cemeteries atKingston and Chartham Down, Kent, and in a barrow onWinster Moor, Derbyshire,2 crosses obviously and professedlyChristian and worn as pendants came to light, PI. x, 2, 2, 3, 4.On Breach Down, Kent, there was found a pin for the hair,now in the British Museum, PL x, 5, the head of w

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