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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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istinctively Chris-tian shape, with which may be compared the cross-headedpin from Breach Down, Kent, figured PL x, 5 (p. 115).(a) (b) (d) are ascribed to V and VI, (c) to VII. THE SPEAR The Spatha, the Scramasax, and the Axe we have seento be comparatively rare weapons among the Anglo-Saxonwarriors, but these seem to have been universally armed withthe Spear. Spear heads are by far the commonest of all theweapons found in Germanic cemeteries and appear in all partsin varied forms and sizes, the differences in which seem to bewithout any distinct racial or local significance. The Abbe Cochet remarks x avec cette physionomie com-mune que presentent partout les armes de la grande familleteutonique, quon lappelle franque, saxonne, burgonde, etc.,il y a aussi partout tant de nuances dans les types et une tellevariete dans les individus, quil serait vrai de dire, qua larigueur, aucune arme ne ressemble parfaitement a lautre. 1 Le Tombeau de Cbilderic, p. 140. XXXI facing p. 235 SPEAR HEADS
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The scales apply approximately5 is Continental OPEN AND CLOSED SOCKETS 235 With very few exceptions—the writer has only comeacross two of these—the Anglo-Saxon spear heads, whichare all of hammered iron, have the sockets open all the wayup along one side. It is easy to see that when the weaponsmith had fashioned the effective part of the head of solid ironhe would beat out thin the portion destined for the socket andbring it round into a tube-like form. The two edges couldthen be made to overlap and be welded together so that acomplete funnel-shaped cylinder was formed, or they mightbe merely brought together and made nearly to meet but notto overlap so that a narrow slit was still left open. Themethod of welding up the join so that a complete cylinderwas formed was Roman, and it is universal also in the verynumerous spear heads found in the Nydam moss in Schleswig.1Exact statistics as to the use of the two methods by all thepeoples of the migration period are wanting, and vague s

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