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 320
n onfig. 477, and on the next figure, 478, two curious objects,the use of which has probably been to hang small instru-ments on, to attach them to the girdle. For the same use, 19 290 GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR CONTENTS. probably, are the curious and somewhat puzzling, objectswhich are occasionally met… … keys and other objects would be hung on the lower ends.Each side of the one here engraved is six and a half inchesin length. A large variety of girdle ornaments have beenfound in different districts. Hair-pins are of various forms and lengths. They aregenerally of bronze, but sometimes of bone.…
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