This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...a crown, surmounted with three globular projections; the fillets of the crown, shewn on the sides of the head, the sides of the head, have foliated terminations. The bust is arrayed in a tunic, over which is a chlamys, or mantle, gracefully attached to the shoulders. In a letter addressed to the late Mr. Gage Rokewode, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...a crown, surmounted with three globular projections; the fillets of the crown, shewn on the sides of the head, the sides of the head, have foliated terminations. The bust is arrayed in a tunic, over which is a chlamys, or mantle, gracefully attached to the shoulders. In a letter addressed to the late Mr. Gage Rokewode, published in the Archceologia, vol. xxix, pp. 70-75, I have assigned reasons for ascribing this beautiful jewel to the ninth century, and I have compared it with the well-known Alfred jewel, and with a large convex brooch in the Hamilton collection of gems in the British Museum. The workmanship is superior to that of both of these examples, but the principle of the construction is much the same in all, as well as in analogous works in the French National collections, some of which are probably of a much later date than that proposed for the London jewel, on grounds more fully entered upon in the letter referred to above. This ouche is engraved the actual size in the accompanying plate. 554. FIBULA, In Bronze, probably of the sixth or seventh century. 555. FIBULA, In Bronze, circular, with a volute pattern; of the same date. No. 554. 556. FIBULA, In Bronze, coated with a thin plate of silver, and ornamented with a rudely-executed representation of a man on horseback; circular; about an inch in diameter; date, seventh or eighth century. It resembles one in the possession of Mr. Fitch, of Ipswich, which was taken from a barrow in the parish of Otley, in Suffolk. 557. SMALL Circular Bronze Plate, ornamented with lines and circles. 558. FIBULA, In Lead, decorated with pearled circles, and with letters applied as ornaments. The character of the latter is identical with that of the letters of inscriptions upon the coinage of the earlier Saxon period...
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