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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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wrap orfichu round the shoulders, and not in the coiffure. Theposition of the pin in the grave, when this comes to be opened,would be much the same whether it had been used in the hairor to fasten a part of the dress under the chin, and in any caseposition in the grave like every other piece of archaeologicalevidence has to be received in a critical spirit. It has been usual for our Anglo-Saxon antiquaries toassume that the pins found in our graves were for the hair,and in the case of some of them such employment can almostbe demonstrated (p. 387). It must be remembered at the sametime that certain pins of a plain kind were apparently employedto keep together the edges of the winding sheet in which a bodywas wrapped for burial,3 and this renders plausible the suppo- 1 Von Sacken, Das Grabfeld von Hallstatt, Wien, 1868, pi. xv, xvi, showssome specimens. 2 Le Cimettere franc de Fontavie-lralmont, 1895, p. 34. 3 e.g. at Harnham Hill, Wilts. LXXX facing p. 369 LARGE PINS FOR DRESS OR HAIR
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All somewhat reduced, save 6, which is enlarged PINS FOR DRESS AND HAIR 369 sition of a similar use in the case of the garments of the living.In a report by Charles Roach Smith on the discoveries atOzengell in Kent quoted on a previous page (p. 190), it issaid that the dress of a female f appeared to have been fastenedin front by a long metal pin, and of course for c dress heremight be read winding sheet. As would follow naturallyfrom the history of the pin, the object when found in Anglo-Saxon graves exhibits sometimes elements of older date.There was nothing of which the Hallstatt people were moreenamoured than what the Germans call * Klapperschmuck,consisting in the attachment to the heads of pins or to broochesof movable metal plates that jingled when the wearer moved.The more perfect was the freedom of the vibration the betterwould be the effect, and a pin equipped in this fashion wouldfulfil its function more pleasingly when projecting from thecoiffure than when in contact with

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