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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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to be of Anglian origin and date, though the period to whichthey should be ascribed is doubtful. In the one of which thehead end is shown PL xix, i, were found the bones of a womanaccompanied by some beads that have unfortunately not beenpreserved. There were also in the coffins fragments of hazelrods, some portions of which are seen at the foot of the postin the photograph. This post is 1 ft. 8 in. high and 9 in.square at the base and is placed in the Museum in the positionit occupied at the head of the coffin, as if to serve as a markor memorial. In the dearth of such memorials in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries it is an exhibit of importance. There is a difference here between England and theContinent that is of some significance. Lindenschmit in hisHandbuch figures a number of tombstones in the Rhinelandwith German names upon them apparently of Merovingian 1 Archaeologia, xlviii, .327. 2 Surrey Archaeological Collections, vi, 10S. XIX facing p. i8j WOODEN COFFIN AND HEADPOST, AND TOMBSTONE
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INSCRIBED TOMBSTONES 181 date, that bear Christian symbols but were found markinggraves supplied in pagan fashion with tomb furniture. Theinscriptions on these are in Latin. Many of these Rhinelandcemeteries are in the neighbourhood of Worms, where thecontinuity of Latin and Teutonic civilization is evidenced bythe free use on the part of the conquerors of the older Romangraveyards. In England early inscribed Germanic tombstonesdo occur, as at Hartlepool and Monkwearmouth, but they arein monastic cemeteries not in those of Roman or of paganorigin and associations. In general the use of the Latinlanguage in Anglo-Saxon England is due to the direct agencyof the Church, whereas in the Rhineland and Gaul Latin ismore freely used in secular connections and must have beenmore commonly understood. In connection with the earlyAnglo-Saxon coins attention has been called to the fact thatwhile the art upon them is fresher and more full of life thanon contemporary Gallic pieces, yet the Latin of

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