Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907 · London, Methuen & Co · leaf 87
52 CELTIC ART master the method of arranging the S- and C-shapedconnections of the spirals in proper order,1 so as to becapable of extension in every direction over a surfaceof any required size. The difficulty was got over bya most ingenious artifice, as Mr. George Coffey was … Bronze Axe-head with Spiral Ornament from Sweden the first to point out in his monograph on Newgrange,Dowth, and Knowth in the Transactions of the RoyalIrish Academy (vol. xxx., p. 25). When the spirals 1 That is to say, the way of placing- the centres of the spirals inrelation to each other, and…
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