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 87
Era, and that the Romans were acquainted with it; itis equally possible that the Normans knew how to make it, for theBayeux pictures, in which the rings are seen in isolation, are exe-cuted in a very conventional style. Until, however, pieces of suchmail of a date anterior to the twelfth century… … Fig. 53.—Spur, sixteenth century. mounted. The lower legs seem as a rule to have been protectedonly by some form of bandaging, as had been the-case in Carlo-vingian times. The shield was usually very long, rounded at thetop and pointed at the bottom. During the period succeeding the Norman Conquest…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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