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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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as dress fasteners. This last sugges-tion would carry more weight if it were not for the existenceof the annular brooches which must always have been thingsof use and which overlap in point of time the penannularones. The closed penannular brooch is therefore not anaberration but a return to an early and a persistent type thatremains in vogue from Roman times till the middle ages.The reason for this absorption of the penannular into theannular form is hard to see. Possibly the great popularityof the buckle in this period may have had something to dowith it. As we shall see later on, the simplest form of thebuckle is almost the same thing as the annular brooch, andthe resemblance of the latter to the former may have contri-buted to its popularity. In many cases these annular fibulae are so simple andunpretentious that it is really impossible to tell by mere inspec-tion whether a particular piece is Roman, pagan Saxon, later1 Celtic Art, p. 229. LI facing p. 287 ANGLO-SAXON RING FIBULAE
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(, 2, 4, 7, about natural size; 8, § natural size; 3, 5, 6, a little reduced ;10, 11, somewhat enlarged12 is Continental ANNULAR BROOCHES 287 Saxon, or mediaeval. PL l, 3 shows a pair found in thegarden at Audley End, Essex, and probably mediaeval.PI. l, 4, was unearthed on Coquet Island off the coast ofNorthumberland, and is now in the Museum at AlnwickCastle. In conjunction with it was found an enamelled plaquePL l, 5, that so far as its make goes might be late Saxon buthas the vitreous pastes distributed round the outer circle inspaces that are so like the form of the mediaeval heater-shapedshield, that the two must probably be referred to XII, whenthe island was the seat of a small religious establishment. Onthe other hand there is no reason to doubt the Anglo-Saxonorigin of the plain ring brooches shown on the BifronsPlate xxxvi (p. 245), nor that of the examples from Stapen-hill, PL Li, 2 ; from Hornsea, at Hull, PL li, 4 ; from WestStow Heath, Suffolk, in the Museum at Bury St

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