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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 300

An illustration from 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, leaf 300 — They all, however, bear, exclusive of the fact of their beingfound along with other evidences of the period to which Fig. 448. … they belong, characteristics which cannot well be mis-taken. These circular fibulae appear to have been worn by the FIBULJE, 27I Anglo-Saxon ladies on the breast or, occasionally, shoulder.They were probably, therefore, used for fastening the dresson the bosom, as is so often seen in illuminated…

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