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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 379

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563). Pieces of this kind may be ulti-mately responsible for the round head of the Germanic fibula. This difference in the shape of the heads assumes consider-able importance when it is observed that as a rule the squarehead belongs to the north of Europe,2 whereas the semi- 1 Tbierornamentik, p.… … Approximately the natural sizesj, 6, 7, are Continental THE RADIATING FIBULA 255 circular one is rather Gothic, South German and Frankish inits affinities. We have now at any rate come to understand the originand original significance of the knobs which project beyondthe outline of the semicircular…

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