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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as. There are oneor two other birds in triental designs, but the quadrupeds andother wingless creatures that riot on the sceattas are onlyrepresented in France by PI. 11, 14/ and a pair of others, sothat in his discussion of types M. Prou only says a Neaufles(see No. 14) et a Nantes, nous trouvons un quadrupede ; aLoci Velacorum^ une tete de loup.1 It was noticed above that the Anglo-Saxons had an earlycurrency in gold though they settled down in the sceat periodto silver. The British Museum possesses one exceptionalpiece, given, enlarged to nearly two diameters, in No. 1 onPI. in, in the form of a gold solidus with types imitated fromthose of a coin of Honorius, that bears a runic inscriptionwhich from the form of one of the characters locates the coineither in this country or in Frisia. When the British Museumcatalogue was drawn up about 1887, Dr. Wimmer dated thepiece on the evidence of the runes about 600, but quite 1 Les Monnaies, p. xcv. Ill facing p. 69 THE CRONDALL HOARD, ETC.
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No. 1, enlarged i; diameters; the other coins about 2 diameters. The coins are gold THE CRONDALL HOARD 69 recently Professor von Friesen of Upsala has given anauthoritative opinion that there is nothing in the nature of therunes that would prevent its origin being put back for anothercentury. Its provenance is not exactly known but it isbelieved to have been found in this country,1 though, as wassaid above, it might conceivably be of Frisian origin, for it isnow recognized that the Frisians employed the runic characterswhich used to be claimed as exclusively British. If we mayregard it as of English provenance it becomes a document of theutmost importance in its bearing on the history of the Anglo-Saxon coinage. The inscription is blundered and unintelligible,but the representation of the profile head and of the figuretreading down an opponent on the reverse compare favourablyin point of art with the famous Theodebert coins of about 540shown PI. 1, 4, 5, and even with the excellent Ma

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