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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 431

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rooch belongs rather to the Viking age than to thatof the pagan tomb furniture there will be a suitable opportunityfor discussing it afterwards in this connection. Thesebrooches correspond in their manner of use to the two kindsof quoit brooch, the closed and the open, just passed in review, 1 See… … PENANNULAR BROOCHES 285 and the construction of PL xlix, i and 2 seems to show thatthe ring brooches are prior to those in the quoit form, for wesee in both the Sarre and the Alfriston examples a penannularring brooch added to the quoit-shaped plate in order to securethe easy lateral movement of…

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