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 370
old, and theevolution of the type can be traced from the very earliestbeginnings, while all through its long history we find primitiveforms from time to time recurring. If we turn over to-day aheap of the common safety pins of modern commerce we shallsoon find one that consists in nothing but a… … Fig. 10.—Below, early fibula of the Pesciera type, natural size ;above, fibula from Kingston, Kent, enlarged. are substitutes for the neolithic pins of bone, or the still moreprimitive thorn, with which Tacitus, who was possibly theoriz-ing, tells us the Germans of the Hinterland fastened…
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