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)
Fig. 316. Fig. 317- FIBULA, 195 in those vermin killers. Examples to show this formare here given (figs. 313, 314, 316, and 317). This form offibula is generally known as the dolphin shape. Occa-sionally wire only, twisted in like manner as recently repro-duced for skeleton shawl pins, are found.… … engraved on fig. 318. It is of one continuous piece ofbronze, and the pin, having a coiled spring, answers to thetail of the serpent, and hooks into a projection on the neck. The ornamentation is as varied as the form. Sometimesthey are chased or engraved in minute patterns of rowsof dots, scales,…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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