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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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d that the wood had beensome 3 in. thick. A group of iron coffin bolts and mountsfrom Bifrons in the Kent Archaeological Societys collection atMaidstone is shown No. 6 on PL xi. A thickness of plankingof at least i\ in. is indicated by the longest of the pieces.PL xviii, 2 (p. 177) gives a partial view of a Wiltshire burialwhere the iron coffin mounts are seen in situ on each sideof the skeleton, which came from the earlier Bronze Agebarrow in Ogborne St. Andrew churchyard. They can be dis-tinguished by their darker colour from the bones. Theinteresting exhibit is in the Museum at Devizes. Owingto the absence of relics it is not absolutely certain that theinterment is Saxon. No such artistic smithing has been foundattached to Anglo-Saxon coffins as came to light in the grave 1 Bede, Hist. Eccl., iv, II. 2 Victoria History, Suffolk, 1, 339, 3 Coffins are not common at this period except in Kent. Mr. ReginaldSmith in Vict. Hist., Yorks, 11, 95. SKELETON OF ANGLO-SAXON LADY AT FOLKESTONE
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Foreshortened view COFFINS AND CISTS 151 of a Lombard chieftain at Civezzano in North Italy and is inevidence in the Museum at Innsbruck.1 The custom some-times observed abroad 2 of forming receptacles for the bodyby hollowing out the two halves of split tree trunks, a practiceof the Bronze Age3 surviving in England to a much laterperiod, may have been used in Saxon burials in Yorkshire,4but is very uncommon. In York Museum are some recept-acles of the kind from Selby that are possibly Anglian. Theexample shown on PL xix (p. 180) is more regularly shaped. As a substitute for a coffin or a sarcophagus slabs ornodules of stone are sometimes used. At Ozengell in Thanetand in the neighbouring cemetery at Goldston by Richborough,Kent, the bodies had been covered with slabs of laminatedsandstone, from a bed of the stone on the shore of PegwellBay, and Professor Rolleston noticed that certain of theAnglo-Saxon graves at Frilford were lined with uprightstones, suggesting in both cases some at

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