The arts in early England (1903) (14804566633)

Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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oticed already (p. 115 f.) that the custom ofburying these objects with the dead lasts on into Christiantimes, and in some districts of England a fairly rich gravemay be of Christian date. If the archaeologists of northernFrance be right in their chronology this was more markedlythe case abroad than in this country. Messrs. Eck,1 Pilloy,Boulanger, and others ascribe part of the tomb furniture ofthe cemeteries they describe to the Carolingian epoch, that isto the latter part of VIII. In his £tudesy Vol. 1, p. 123 f.,M. Pilloy gives actual dates for the three periods among whichhe apportions the tomb furniture of the cemeteries of theAisne. The first period embraces V and VI, the second VIIand VIII, the third part of VIII with an extension into IXand even perhaps into X. M. Boulanger adopts the samesystem in his Mobilier Funeraire and his book on Marchelepot. 1 e.g. Le Cimetiere Franc dc Lucy-Ribemont, in Bulletin Archeo-logique, 1893. XVI facing p. 171 SUN DISC AND LATE TOMB FURNITURE
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2 is I natural size ; 3, about half-sizeI, J, 4, are Continental pieces RARITY OF LATE FINDS 171 M. Pilloy compares buckles like that at Rouen shown PI. xvi, 3,with the grotesque carved capitals of early Romanesquechurches.1 A definite justification for this late dating isfurnished by the Burgundian cemetery of Bel-Air nearLausanne in Switzerland where in one of the later gravesM. Troyon found ten coins of Charles the Great.2 In ourown country the case is somewhat different. Movableobjects of late date make their appearance, though not in anyabundance, and are often found in tombs, but with the rarestexceptions these are not graves in the regular cemeteries whichsupply the tomb furniture of the pagan period, but isolatedinterments of the Viking epoch, such as that discovered nearBedale in Yorkshire in the centre of the great Roman road tothe north.3 It is almost without precedent to find objects inthe regular cemeteries that exhibit any sign either of theCarolingian renaissance or of