The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)
was found in a barrow on the Breach downs, and was inthe collection of Lord Londesborough, and fig. 3 was found atSittingbourne, also in Kent. Fig. 4 is a very singular boss,which Avas found among Anglo-Saxon graves near Driffield,in the East Riding of Yorkshire; the boss itself is not of anunusual… … Braces ot Anglo-Saxon Shields. graves, among the remains of the shield, and were supposed byDouglas to be the braces of bows. This explanation, howe\er, 476 THE SAXONS. [chap. xv. had been long doubted, when, in opening the graves at Osengal,in Thanet, a more careful observation cleared up the…
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