The arts in early England (1903) (14784767235)

Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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gni-ficant, for as Dr. Salin has shownl the spiral in this part is afeature of animal ornament which only comes into use in hisStyle in at the end of VII, where we find it on the beast formsso wonderfully designed in the Gospels of Lindisfarne. Nowif the reader will refer back to PI. lxv, he will find in Nos.2 and 3 a couple of showy square-headed fibulae in silver, theone, No. 2, found at Richborough in Kent, the other, No. 3,4 in. long, from a warriors grave at Gilton, Kent. They arehandsome pieces, and are instructive as combining some earlymotives, such as the quatrefoil in the centre of the foot ofNo. 3, with very late ones as in the debased animal ornamenton the head of No. 2. Of special significance as indicating anadvanced period are the S shaped patterns of filigree sur-rounding a set stone on the disc adorning the bow of No. 2,in a late Kentish style of the latter half of VII, and, moreespecially, the spirals that make their appearance in the animals1 Thieromamentik, p. 273.
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DEGRADED ANIMAL ORNAMENT 343 on each side of the head of No. 3. These spirals are evidently-intended to mark the articulation of the leg with the body andfor the reasons given above they look towards the end of thatcentury. There are similar spirals also in the lower corners ofthe central panel of the head plate, the animals in which areanalysed by Dr. Salin though from a faulty drawing as belong-ing to the latest period of his Style 1. See his fig. 704. Ofthese two fibulae No. 3 is the best, and it is interesting to notethat the full-faced heads on the side rounds of the foot inNo. 3 are degraded in No. 2 to meaningless geometrical forms,while the cross at the bottom of No. 2 has probably Christiansignificance. It would be dangerous at the same time torelegate No. 3 to a very late date on the strength of thespirals for the piece was found in a grave at Gilton with acomplete warriors equipment of sword, shield, and spear, andin that part of the country such a burial would hardly fall