Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth CenturyHewitt, John
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Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century
Hewitt, John
Armor; Weapons
14. Figure of an Anglo-Saxon warrior, from Cotton MS., Cleopatra,
C. viii.; a copy of the _Psychomachia_ of Prudentius. Date,
early in the eleventh century. The body-armour appears to be
of hide, with the fur turned outwards. The characteristic
leg-bands of the Anglo-Saxons are carefully expressed. 64
15. Anglo-Saxon spearmen, from the fine manuscript of Prudentius
in the Tenison Library. Date, the beginning of the eleventh
century. The drawings are in pen-and-ink only, but very
carefully executed: the later subjects by a fresh hand, but all
Anglo-Saxon work. 65
16. Another group from Cotton MS., Claudius, B. iv. This volume
contains a great number of drawings, many of which illustrate
the subject on which we are engaged. 66
17. Figure of Goliath, from a Latin Psalter of the tenth century
in the British Museum: Additional MS., No. 18,043. The hauberk
is coloured blue in the original, apparently indicating
chain-mail. The curious combed helmet is of the same hue,
clearly implying a defence of iron. 67
18. Supposed frame-helmet of the Anglo-Saxon period. It is of
bronze, and was found upon the skull of an entombed warrior
discovered at Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham, in 1844. 69
19. BOSSES OF SHIELDS: of iron.--Fig. 1. Anglo-Saxon: from the
Faussett collection: found on Chartham Downs, near Canterbury.
Figs. 2 and 3. From the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Fairford. The
last measures nearly five inches across. The rest on this
plate are to the same scale. Figs. 4 and 6. In Mr. Rolfe's
collection: from the Ozingell cemetery. Fig. 5. Anglo-Saxon:
found at Streetway Hill, Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire: now in the
British Museum. 73
20. BOSSES OF SHIELDS.--Fig. 7. From the Anglo-Saxon cemetery
at Ozingell. Fig. 8. From the Faussett collection: found at
Chartham Downs. Fig. 9. Found at Rodmead Down, Wilts. From Sir
Richard Hoare's "Ancient Wilts." Fig. 10. From the Wilbraham
cemetery. This specimen is especially valuable from its
retaining the handle still fixed by its rivets to the edge of
the boss. Fig. 11. Scottish example: found in a grave in the
county of Moray. From Dr. Wilson's "Archæology of Scotland."
Fig. 12. German: from the cemetery at Selzen. Fig. 13. A Danish
example: from the Copenhagen Museum. All these are of iron. 75
21. From the same MS. as No. 14 (Cleop. C. viii.). The figure is
one of a group, all similarly equipped, and carrying their
shields at their back. 77
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