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)
pension by their hooks there can be but little doubt, and PENDANT ORNAMENTS, ETC. 263 it seems not improbable that they might serve as pendantsto the helmet; the two with hooks possibly hanging as ear-guards or coverings, and the others being attached by pinsor rivets to, perhaps, the front and… … of thin metal, was found. It had been attached by threepins or rivets, the holes for which remained. It was notenamelled, but decorated with raised ornaments. It is en-graved of its full size on fig. 439. A singular plate of cast and chased bronze, strongly gilt,and set with garnets, found in…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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