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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)

Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 280

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ference betweenthe two patterns is in the central spiral design, which onone side is composed of a continuous returning involvedspiral, on the other of continuous C-spirals (Figs. 252,253). This singular little carriage appears to have beenintentionally broken, suggesting that it was a votive… … Fig. 252. —Design on Trundholme disk. these, 2| inches in diameter, has the two lugs, but allevidence of the carriage on which it was fixed has disap-peared (Fig. 254). The gold cover-ing the surface, if it ever existed,is also wanting, and there is no spiralornament. A single zone of a seriesof…

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