The Arts In Early England Saxon Art And Industry In The Pagan Period

Author : Gerard Baldwin Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666648266
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Arts in Early England written by Gerard Baldwin Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Arts in Early England: Saxon Art and Industry in the Pagan Period They are generally of bone, and are ornamented as were Roman combs with incised lines and with the concentric circles already illustrated (p. The object continues also in favour in the later anglo-saxon period, and combs in various forms are Characteristic of the Danish epoch, so well represented at York by finds in the Museum of the York Philosophical Society, and also at the Guildhall Museum, London. The latest of the anglo-saxon combs is that found in the coffin of St. Cuthbert at Durham and preserved in the Library there. It can be dated with fair certainty at about 1020 a.d., and will be noticed in a succeeding volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.