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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 367

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out. The first kind,Nos. 6, 10, is best called a disc fibula ; the second, Nos. 1,5,a saucer fibula, while No. 7 of which only the back is visible isa variation of this type called an applied fibula (p. 275) ; thethird kind, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13, are ring or annularfibulae ; and the best name… … /, 2, are Continental FIBULAE AT BIFRONS 247 descriptions, are of uncertain significance, and would applyequally well to all the sub-types on this plate. No. 12 on PI. xxxvi shows two fibulae of the saucer kindunited by a light chain. The brooches would be fixed one oneach shoulder and the chain…

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