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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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ory of the type is concerned chieflywith the enlargement and treatment of this square head-plateand the relations between it and the coil with its knobs below.This history has been worked out in an elaborate little treatiseby Dr. Haakon Schetelig of the Bergen Museum in Norway,1which has established for our present state of knowledge thechronology of the various forms involved. The origin of thespecial type is claimed for the Lower Elbe region and Schleswig,but the development is worked out in Denmark, Norway andSweden, and England, and the relations among the formsfound in the three countries are set forth with great lucidityand convincingness in the treatise. To put the matter briefly,when the head-plate has assumed a certain size the knobs atthe ends of the coil become in different ways attached to it,and at a later stage, having become in this way intimately1 The Cruciform Brooches of Norway, Bergens Museums Aarbog, 1906. XLI facing p. 261 CONSTRUCTION OF ENGLISH CRUCIFORM FIBULAE
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;, 2, 4, 6, a little reduced ; 5, considerably reduced EARLY CRUCIFORM FIBULAE 261 associated with the plate, they end by losing their connectionwith the coil altogether and are cast in one piece with the plateto which they become merely ornamental appendages. Thetype originated in IV for specimens like Fig. 12 were foundin the Nydam moss in Schleswig. It was carried through itsmain typological changes in the course of V and lasted on inuse at any rate in England to the latter part of VI and eveninto VII. It is noteworthy that all through V in Denmarkand in England it was usual for the side knobs still to belongessentially to the coil and only to be attached as separatepieces to the head plate as is the case with all the fibulae onPL xli, while in Norway and Sweden they were already cast inthe same piece with the head plate. In VI this casting in onepiece was universal and an example is seen on PL xliv. Itfollows that cruciform fibulae found in England with detachedside knobs may as a

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