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 168

An illustration from 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, leaf 168 — triptychs, &c. The medallions bear figuresand busts of kings, armed knights, &c, in low relief, surrounded bysham inscriptions including a date (often 1001 or 1021) in Arabicnumerals. It is needless to point out( that the kind of armourdepicted does not accord with the period suggested, and… … Fig. 103.—Lead and bronze forgeries. over England, and are often actually excavated because they havebeen purposely placed in the earth. It is hoped that the publica-tion of this note may deter those interested in remains of mediaevaldate from acquiring as genuine antiquities objects of no…

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