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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 283

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bly broken, nowpresents a mass of chainwork, and the frame of a helmet.The latter consists of a skeleton formed of iron bands (fig.431) radiating from the crown of the head, and riveted to acircle of the same metal which encompassed the brow: fromthe impression on the metal it is evident that the… … with the iron framework, and attached to it by ornamentalrivets of silver at intervals of about an inch and a half Fig. 432.

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