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 73
tself intowhat, in the terminology of the northern archaeologist, is calledthe box-shaped fibula. As the simple fibula got the shape ofthe boars-head fibula by a gradual elevation of the rim, so inexactly the same way the circular fibula became in course oftime more abruptly elevated. It lost its… … Figs. 49, 50.—Box-shaped fibula (Gotland), with details. At. first we do not find a great difference. I would direct theattention of the reader to Figs. 49 and 50, a box-shaped fibula, notvery different from those of which the upper surface has beenfigured in the preceding pages, but only a little…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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