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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 316

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striking Late Keltic ornament recalling theinvolved circles on the Lisnacroghera scabbard. The diskis 8 inches in diameter with a rolled border, and differsfrom the preceding in being unengraved. The handle, 5inches long, is also plain, but it is pierced with three seg-mental orifices together… … Fig. 280.—Ornamented plate of Balmaclellan mirror. Dr. Joseph Anderson as presenting a pattern composedof those peculiar raised surfaces formed by the meeting ofcurves rising from the flat at different angles, and travers-ing the around also in curves which converoe and diverorein a manner pleasing…

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