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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 45

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is a breast-plate, belonging to this earlyBronze period ; it is decorated withzigzags in bands, and a well-ar-ranged schemeof spiral ornamenta-tion (Fig. 41). Urns of earthenware,sometimes decorated with zigzagsand sacred signs, have been foundin graves. These urns containedashes of the dead (Figs.… … Figs 39 and 40. — BronzeButton for Sword Belt.(From Danish Arts.) in bogs. Some of the objects found in North Germany, and par-

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