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Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William, 1816-1886 · London : Groombridge · leaf 228

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r inches. Many other varieties arefound, sometimes formed of square bars of gold twistedspirally, sometimes of flat bars of the same metal twistedin a lighter manner, and sometimes, again, of more than onebar twisted together. The ends, too, are of various forms :sometimes being simply hooks, and… … wood Forest, and is here engraved (fig. 322). It is formedof eight cords of gold plaited together, and weighs i lb. i oz. TORQUES AND MIRRORS. 199 7 dwts. and 10 grains. Another example of a differentcharacter, from Ireland, is here given (fig. 323). Fig- 323.

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