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)
tedplate in front. It is remarkable that, in this fibula, thering, which, like other examples of this formof brooch, has been made to play freelyfor half its circumference through the acus,has been riveted to the head of the pin inthe position shown in the engraving. Thatit has been much worn in… … FIBULjE. 277 fixed to the side of the ring, and this was certainly not theoriginal intention of the maker of the brooch, but was donesubsequently. This will be seen by the engraving of theprofile of the head of the acus, on fig. 458. On one or twoexamples of penannular brooches, inscriptions in…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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