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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
The photographs and drawings here illustrated have been placed at my disposal by Mr. Kendrick of the British Museum, and enable me to publish with the Curator's permission a short note on these very attractive trinkets. They are three fragments of silver found in the City of London and preserved in the Guildhall Museum. Each is part of a small cylinder provided with holes for rivets, to be fastened as a decoration on some kind of staff. The original destination of the object is not clear: in any case the cylinders seem too slender for a crozier shaft, but belonged to something worthy of this costly and aristocratic decoration.
page 22 note 1 Guildhall Catalogue, p. 120, pl. LIV, 17–19.
page 23 note 1 Bröndsted, J., Early English Ornament, London, 1924, p. 280Google Scholar; , Brögger, , Falk, Shetelig, , Osebergfundet, vol. iii, pp. 323–4Google Scholar.
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page 24 note 1 Smith, Reginald A., Proc. S. A. L. xxiii, p. 397Google Scholar, and ibid, xxiv, p. 60.
page 24 note 2 Bröndsted, J., Early English Ornament, p. 145Google Scholar. Bröndsted describes this ornament as presenting a blending of Irish and English art about A.D. 900. From study of the original I have found it distinctly allied to the Urnes style of the late eleventh century. See specially the type of the animal's head, the position of the body and limbs, the terminals of the ribbons, and the whole design made up of a ‘great beast’ and a snake. In Dr. Bröndsted's illustration the head of the animal is found on the upper left-hand side of the photograph.
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