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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ent kinds,clasps, and pins. A simple form of the hook and eye arrange-ment was made of twisted wire, the part intended to be sewnon to the garment being coiled round in a spiral. PL lxxvi, 5,shows a pair from Twyford, Leicestershire, in LeicesterMuseum. Other such objects are recorded from MarketOverton, Rutland; Kenninghall, Norfolk ; Sleaford, Lincoln-shire, and Beeby, Leicestershire, see Archaeologia, lxii, 484.Spiral wire attachments of the kind occur in the early finds inNydam Moss in Schleswig, see Engelhardt, Denmark in theEarly Iron Age, Nydam, pi. v. A far more elaborate andtechnically very interesting set is that figured PI. lxxvi, 4.It is one of two clasps found about 1910 at Market Overton,Rutland, and now at Tickencote Hall in that county. It willeasily be seen that what appear on the face as round discs aremerely the ends of the spirally coiled wires beaten out flat in amanner that betokens good metal and a knowing hammerer. LXXVII facing p. 361 CLASPS OF THE LARGER KIND
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4, natural size; 2, 5, slightly enlarged ; 3, enlarged to double size; 1, half natural size LARGE BELT CLASPS 361 The silver wires themselves are in parts worked into a beadingand elsewhere left plain, which is also instructive from thetechnical standpoint. The craftsman must have had a steeltool with the pattern cut in intaglio in a half cylinder and haveworked this round and round the wire as a screw plate isworked to produce the thread of a male screw. The circlesthat ornament the face of the discs seem to have been workedfree-hand for they are not concentric and not always complete.A curious clasp in the Museum at Leicester, PL lxxvi, 3, wasfound between Twyford and Borough Hill in the county, andconsists in two narrow strips of silver, about 6 in. long, one ofwhich ends in a hook the other in an eye. This leads us on to thesubject of the clasp proper on which a word or two must be said.The clasp proper appears in two forms. There are one ortwo examples of substantial size such as

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