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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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rarer however intomb furniture than the arrow head or than traces of the bowin Q 242 THE BOW AND ARROW and its appertainances. In one grave at Chessell Down in theIsle of Wight and in one at Bifrons traces have been foundthat seemed to indicate the presence of a bow. Arrow headswere found at Chessell Down, and a few have come to light indifferent finds. PL xxxn, 5, shows a good specimen in theDouglas collection in the Ashmolean, 6 and 7 are in WarwickMuseum, and No. 7, which was found in the churchyard atRadford Semele near Warwick, may be mediaeval. The setfigured under No. 1 on PL xxxn are part of the interestingfinds at Buttsole, near Eastry, Kent, already referred to (p. 203).They are in the Museum at Maidstone and vary in lengthfrom 4^- in. to 2J- in. It is open to any one to argue thatthese are the points of small javelins rather than of arrows.Faussett believed that light missiles of the kind were oftenplaced in the Kentish graves (p. 706). XXXIII facing p. 243 FIBULAE AS WORN
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All Continental CHAPTER V TOMB FURNITURE : (II) THE MORPHOLOGY OFTHE FIBULA For the fastenings of dress the Teutonic peoples of themigration period used the brooch, the buckle, the clasp, thepin, and to each of them they applied all the taste and cunningcraftsmanship available. The clasp and the pin are, as objects,comparatively unimportant, though the presence or absence ofthe former in Anglo-Saxon graves will be seen to possessmuch archaeological significance. The brooch and the buckleon the other hand are not only archaeologically important inrelation to questions of date and ethnology, but in themselvesoffer specimens of the most elaborate and artistically pleasingwork that our Teutonic craftsmen have left to us. Historically speaking there is a marked difference betweenthe buckle and the fibula, the former being much more dis-tinctively Teutonic. Rien de plus inevitable que la boucle,wrote the Abbe Cochet,1 dans la sepulture franque, burgonde,saxonne ou allemanique : elle est dan

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