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The arts in early England (1903)

Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 347

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form is thatof the lance head at Maidstone found at Sarre, 2a. This deBaye claims as specially Anglo-Saxon, but it does occur some-times abroad, see Lindenschmit, Handbuch^ p. 173. It mayhowever be regarded provisionally as a south of Englandfashion though the cemetery at Little Wilbraham,… … 12 is Continental DETAILS OF SPEAR HEADS 237 The development of the median rib, a pronounced featurein the earlier cast-bronze spear heads, represents an additionaleffort on the part of the weapon smith. Some of thespecimens on PL xxxi exhibit it, but when it is more accen-tuated it passes through…

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