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 297
tes of metal, enclosed by aband round the edges. The shell of this extraordinarybrooch is entirely of gold. The upper surface is divided FIBULA. 267 into no less than seven compartments, subdivided intocells of various forms. Those of the first and fifth aresemi-circles, with a peculiar graduated… … and the triangular are filled with turquoises ; the remain-ing cells of the various compartments with garnets, laidupon gold-foil, except the sixth, which forms an umbo, andbosses in the circle, which are composed apparently ofmother-of-pearl. The second and fourth compartmentscontain vermicular…
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