Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907 · London, Methuen & Co · leaf 153
viii., p. 35). We may here call attention to the intensely Celticcharacter of the fibulae just described. The wearing ofbrooches in pairs with a chain attachment was a Celticand not a Roman custom, as has already been pointed CELTIC ART out in a previous volume of The Reliquary (for 1895,p. 157). A… … One of a pair of silver-gilt Fibulas found in Northumberland,with Denarius of Antoninus Pius (a.d. 139)Drawn by C. Praetorius is now to be seen in the museum of St. Germain, nearParis. It may, therefore, be fairly assumed that all thefibulae found in this country with chains attached to 1 Engraved…
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