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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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than the silver of old Teutonic tradition is supposed tohave lingered in highly Romanized centres such as Londonand York. The significance of this numismatic fact in con-nection with the position of London in early Anglo-Saxondays will be noticed on a later page (p. 605). The Londoncoins cannot as a whole be placed very early, for the reversesof the majority of them show a figure that holds two crossesin his hands, PI. iv, 5, 7, 8. The example found at Hallumin Friesland, PI. iv, 6, has a reverse that presents a very degraded, and hence presumably late, form of its type, andcan hardly be an early coin. This question of date is furtherdiscussed later on in this chapter (p. 110). The criterion of comparative date here indicated is oneon which reliance is generally placed. A classical originalbeing assumed, it seems natural to regard copies which repro-duce it with fair completeness as earlier in date than those inwhich it appears in a very imperfect and blundered condition. facing p. 8i
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THE FULL-FACED HEAD 81 This mode of argument from typology has been doubtless alittle overpressed, for it takes no account of the possibility ofvariations due to differences in skill and practice among crafts-men, and to their location at places near or remote from thecentres where art and learning were at each epoch chieflyflourishing. It must also be remembered that Roman coinsmight come freshly to light at any time and might be imitatedat quite a late period as well as at an early one. Bearing inmind these cautions we may discuss from this point of viewsome characteristic sceat types. There has already been shown an excellent full face on aMerovingian triens of Chalon, PI. n, 3. One or two Englishsceattas exhibit heads not very far below this standard. Thebest is perhaps one in Lord Grantleys possession but theone reproduced here in an enlarged form, PI. v, 7, fromMr. Carlyon-Brittons collection now dispersed, makes a goodsecond. The reverse, it will be noted, has a fairly consiste

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