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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d this with the one to the left of the three-knobbed one in the bottom row possesses special features towhich attention will presently be directed. It is clear at any rate that the insignificant-looking littlebrooches of this class need not be dismissed as of trivialimportance. From their occurrence in Schleswig and also,as is the case, in Hanover, they may be claimed as earlyforms brought over to this country and developed here tonumerous varieties, all of which however are affiliated to thecruciform type. It is a noteworthy fact that in the case ofthe two plain square-headed brooches, Nos. 10 and 11 onPI. xxxiv, we have distinct evidence of early date, for theycame to light in a grave at Bifrons the other objects inwhich must be placed about the year 500.* The form ofthese head plates may easily have been arrived at by thesummary process suggested in the text. No one however 1 Arch. Cant., x, 303, cf. Victoria History, Leicester, 1, 228. XLIII facing p. 267 FEET OF CRUCIFORM FIBULAE
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All but 6 are about natural size; 6 is f natural siz WINGS AND HORSES-HEAD FEET 267 has yet made a complete analysis of the forms of thesesmaller and simpler fibulae of the long type, and whetherspecimens like PI. xxxiv, 10, 11, belong to the sub-type1 cruciform or l square headed might be a matter ofcontroversy. In what follows they will be called smalllong brooches, by the name suggested above. The detail in the two Kempston brooches in the lowestrow above referred to is the appearance on each side justbelow the bow of projecting wings, and this brings us back tothe rather extensive subject of the later development of thecruciform brooch into varied and on the whole florid formsthat are specially characteristic of England. The outcomeof this development is a set of large brooches handsome ina superficial aspect but ornamented in a somewhat debasedfashion, that at first sight resemble the more ornate square-headed pieces, such as some on PI. xxxiv and PH. lxiv to lxvii,but generally

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