A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 101
rer was obliged to carrya stick shod with an ironpoint, by means of which hepropelled himself forward:each skate was generallymade from the tibia (leg-bone) of a horse. Fitz-Stephen, writing inthe time of Henry II (1154-1189), describes the citizensof London as skating in thismanner at Moorfields,… … Fig. 67.—Bone skates. BOWS. See p. 64. 73 BOXWOOD MEDALLIONS AND CARVINGS IN HONESTONE. Table-Case F. Until about a. d. 1527 Germany did not follow the Italianexample of casting portrait-medals to any great extent, and thefashion was practically unknown until a. d. 1510. Instead ofmedals intended…
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