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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...Archaeological Index. 91. Fibula. Bronze. Hasp-shaped; extreme length, three inches; five offsets from the semicircle, with circular bits of red glass set in each, form the upper part of this ornament. Pin (which was of iron) wanting; the catch and hinge of bronze remain. See Nos. 87 and 89. Found in the neighbourhood of Lyons, and bought by Mr. George Isaacs for 2. 92. Fibul-s. Bronze; "in the shape of birds, ornamented with red glass." The pin, which was of iron, has perished in both specimens. They are engraved, with the reverse of one of them, in Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, vol. ii, plate xxxv, p. 147, figs. 4, 5, and 6. Found (recently) with Nos. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, (?) 118, 110, and 120, with a human skeleton, on the outside of the gate of St. Severinus, Cologne, " with an urn in slate-coloured clay, ornamented with circular stamps," and a glass goblet, both figured in the same plate of Smith's Collectanea Antiqua. "The fibulre in the shape of birds may be compared with examples found in the Isle of Wight, --figured in the Proceedings of the British Archaeological Association at Winchester, plate in, fig. 2, --and," adds Mr. Roach Smith, "at Envermeu, near Dieppe, at Longav6ne, in Picardy, at Nordendorf, in Bavariant nnd also at Selzen." FouiUes oTEnvenneu en 1850, par l'Abb6 Cochet. Revue de Rouen et de Normandie, Juillet 1850. + Dr. Rigollot in the Mhnoires de la Soeiete del Antiqiuiires de Picardie, torn, x, p. 199. 93. "A Ring Or Pendant Ornament, in Bronze." Found with No. 92, and figured in Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, vol. ii, plate xxxv, p. 147, fig. 7. Mr. Smith says, " The bronze ornament, fig. 7, is quite novel to me." 94. Ring. Bronze. Diameter, one inch...
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