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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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ith a long iron handle, 17 in. in lengthover all, and a split socket after the Anglo-Saxon fashion.It was found with two iron spear heads in a Roman villa atAlresford, and was presented by Dr. Laver to the Museumat Colchester. The Abbe Cochet mentions two examples ofsuch iron handles attached to Frankish axes.1 The other, No. 12, is a product of the cemetery at Bifrons,and is an iron axe head meant to be hafted after the fashionof a prehistoric socketed axe of the Bronze Age ; that is tosay the handle is. inserted in a socket that runs in the directionof the axis of the head. There is no doubt of the Anglo-Saxon origin of this curious piece, and a parallel to it is amongthe Layard finds at Ipswich. Nos. 9 and 10 introduce us toan altogether different shape of axe head and one that usedto be called specially Anglo-Saxon, but, as No. 9 from theMuseum at Rouen shows, it is also a continental form, and 1 Le Tombeau de Childeru, p. 127. XXX facing p. 23 AXE HEADS, AND PIN HEADS IN AXE FORM
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I, 4., J, are Continental EXCEPTIONAL AXE HEADS 233 there are numerous examples at St. Germain, and in otherFrankish collections. Here the cutting edge is very long,measuring in the specimen No. 10, from Aldworth, Berks,in the Reading Museum, more than 9 in. A specimen ofsimilar form in the Hurbuck hoard from County Durham,in the British Museum, has the edge not less than 10 in. inlength, but these arms belong to the later, or Danish, period.It is interesting to note that the form is also represented inthose North German collections the importance of which inconnection with our own archaeology is now fully recognized(Ch. x). One example of several in the Museum at Olden-burg is given PI. xxx, 1. A modification of this form withan extension at the back in the form of a sort of hammer,of which a beginning is seen in No. 9 on PI. xxix, isshown PI. xxx, 2 in a piece from the North Kent site ofHorton Kirby. One or two axe heads of curious forms have been dredgedout of the Thames and Kennet

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