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Chapter 18

Illustrations

One     Sunken hut. Swindon 1975 excavation. Courtesy of Swindon                            Archaeology Society

Two    Map of England showing distributions of Belt Sets and Dolphin-                            Buckles with or without openwork plates.  

Three  Illustrations of  a variety of first millennium European brooches.

1.    Dolphin-buckle with openwork plate from Colchester. Second

half of fourth century. Length  5.75 cm. (Böhme)

2.    Early crossbow brooch from Norton, N Yorks. Second half of

fourth century.  Length 5.75 cm. (Böhme)

3.    Brooch with returned foot from Kiev. Third century. Length

      5.5cm (BM)  

4.   Primitive ‘long brooch’ with back of head from Sweden,

      Fourth century.  Length 9.75cm. (BM)

5       Radiated brooch from Crimea. Fourth century. One of a pair.

Length 8.25cm. (BM)

6.    Radiated brooch from Suffolk. Late-fourth century. Length

8.25cm.   (BM)

                            7.   Round-headed brooch (front and back) from Crimea. Early

                                  fourth century.  Length 8.75 cm.  (BM)                       

                            8.   Long brooch with side view from Malton, Cambs. cAD500 

Length 8.75cm.  (BM)

9.    Equal-armed brooch from Haslingfield, Cambs.  Fifth century

Waist width  4.75cm.  (Aberg)

10.  Equal-armed brooch from Lower Saxony. Fifth century. Waist

width  6.75cm. (Hachmann)

11.  Estagel brooch from Springhead in Kent. Fifth to sixth

century. Length  9.00cm.  (Wessex Archaeology)

12.  Square-headed brooch from Sarre, Kent. Second half sixth

century. Length 10 cm.  (Aberg)

                            13. Square-headed brooch from Herpes, Charente decorated with        

       flat garnets.  Second half of sixth century. Length 11.8cm.

       (Aberg)

14.  Applied circular brooch from Kempton, Beds. Second half

of sixth century.  Diameter 6.75cm.  (Aberg)

15.  Pennanular brooch from. Holyhead part of a surviving pre-Roman tradition. Fifth century. Length of pin  7.5cm. (BM)                      

16.  Pennanular brooch from Antrim, N Ireland with birds’ heads

decoration. Fifth century. Length of pin 5cm. (BM) These

brooches have their glorious development in the eighth and ninth centuries in Ireland with achievements like the Tara Brooch (early eighth century).       

Four   Pictish symbols.

Five    Pipe organ.

Six      Plan of Trelleborg

Appendix & Bibliography
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