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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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iched rectangular buckle of gold in the Ashmolean, foundnear Ixworth, Suffolk, is notable as containing the largestgarnet known in this country, more than an inch in length bya breadth of -; in. It is figured in colours by Akerman onthe first plate of his Pagan Saxondom. The bronze specimenPI. lxxii, 1, from Barfriston, Kent, at Liverpool, is of similarshape but has lost ins jewel. PL lxxii, 2, is at Rochester,Kent, and is of unusual construction. It must have oncehad a pin though there is no trace of this. The plate is aspecimen of open work, on which a word may be said. Openor pierced work in bronze is common in Roman and Late-Celtic productions1 and its appearance in Teutonic tombfurniture might be regarded as symptomatic of early date.There are however different kinds of open work and some of 1 Professor Bela Posta believes that the Romans adopted this style ofwork from the Celtic peoples, Arckd:lcgiscbe Studien, p. 485. LXXII facing p. 351 BUCKLES WITH OPEN-WORK PLATES i**:<ii
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^ is Roman ; j, Celtic OPEN WORK BUCKLE PLATES 351 these are significant of a quite advanced period. A beautifulpiece of Roman pierced work in bronze at Bonn is shownPI. lxxii, 4, and a Late-Celtic piece from the famous Marneburials in France in the British Museum PI. lxxii, 5. TheAnglo-Saxon craftsman did not emulate this kind of work, anda piece of it that came to light in the form of a buckle platein the cemetery at Sarre, PL clv, 13 (p. 563), is of Romano-British make. Open work of a coarser kind occurs inTeutonic tomb furniture at all periods, and comes speciallyinto vogue at any rate on the Continent in the later epochcalled by French antiquaries £ Carolingian. Such a specimenin the form of a belt clasp in the Grantley collection will beseen on PI. lxxvii, i (p. 361) and open work swastikafibulae, PL xlviii, 6 (p. 279) and similar pierced ornamentssuch as some from Winklebury Hill, Dorset, at Farnham(p. 654 f.), occur not infrequently in England. The plates toFaussetts Inventor

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