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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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It was noted in connection with thelast that buckles both in the simplest and in an enrichedform have been found at Pompeii and Herculaneum, sothe type is Roman though it was not developed amongstthe classical peoples. For the history of the buckle in its Teutonic form Bifronssupplies us with an excellent starting point. PI. lxx shows aportion of one of the cards on which half a century ago thegamekeepers daughter neatly sewed down the smaller objectsrecovered from the teeming cemetery on the outskirts of thepark. There are two enriched buckles here of special interest,Nos. 6, 9, which will be noticed in connection with certainromanizing pieces discussed in Chapter x. There are othersof the distinct buckle form, Nos. 1, 5, 7, 8, to which the beltor band was attached after the manner of a modern strap, anda third kind in which the attachment is made by means of athin metal plate folded over the end of the band and riveted LXX facing p. 347 BUCKLES OF SIMPLE TYPES AT BIFRONS HOUSE 1_XX
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BUCKLES OF SIMPLE FORM 347 to it, Nos. 10, 11. This is technically termed the chapebut is more often called buckle plate. Differences in sizewill be noticed, as for example between Nos. 5 and 11, sug-gesting use in connection with more than one article of attire.Furthermore there are also three pieces, Nos. 2, 3, 4, aboutwhich a question might be raised whether they are buckles orannular fibulae. The shape of the ring in Nos. 2, 3 suggeststhe former, in No. 4 it suggests the latter, and nothing couldbetter illustrate the close relation between the two types offastening. The simple buckles without any plate for attach-ment are generally considered early, but it must be rememberedthat such pieces would probably remain always in use even ata time when the buckle had developed to very showy forms.In the neolithic period stone axes were elaborately polished,but every polished axe must first have been a chipped one andchipped axes that never succeeded in getting polished may beof neolithic

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