An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)
Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 335
ture applied to similar ornaments. One con-tinuous stream of history and art shows that this singulardecoration had essentially the same form from the fourthcentury i;.c. down to the tenth century a.d. The truedifficulty is the determination of the relative antiquity ofthe different forms, a task… … Fig. 292.—Gold torque with Late Keltic ornament. Clevedon. In the earlier forms the ends of the Torque were not joined,but remained some distance apart, or terminated in bulbsor knobs which fitted aoainst one another. These terminalenlargements gave a surface which could be ornamented.This is well…
Art, Primitive
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