Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English (1893)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Macmillan · leaf 80
68 LEADWORK [sect. For sepulchral use lead is especially fitted ; it was customary in the twelfth century to inscribe a tablet or cross and to place it in the coffin on the breast of the dead. In the Museum at Bruges there is a tablet with a long inscription to Gunilda the sister of Harold.^ Two… … covered inside with thin IlH W silver leaf, was inscribed with the simple words given in Fig. 32 from Archaologia (xxix). A cruciform tablet is given in Camden ^ with an inscription purport- Inscribed Cross. ing to record King Arthur ; the form shows that it was made in the twelfth century. In the…
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