The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)
Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 37
h I have selected from thefinds brought from the isle of Gotland and now preserved in theRoyal Historical Museum of Stockholm. Fig. 10 presents to us a bronze fibula which must belong, forreasons too detailed to enter on here, to the end of that periodin which the influence of Roman arts was felt… … Fig. io.— Fibula. Gotlandic type. in a spiral round one of them, then bent backwards to bebrought over to the opposite arm and to be twisted round it inanother spiral. This method of fastening the pin is very goodand gives it the needful elasticity. That the specimen here figuredis somewhat late we…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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