The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 4 illustrate the sketch of the probabledevelopment of the Teutonic fibula which has justbeen given. Fig. 52 shows a group of Romanbronze fibulae at Mainz, in which can be discernedembryo forms that were afterwards to be worked outinto the extended spirals, the knobs, the T shape,the variously shaped plates covering the springs,that appear later on In the more pronounced cross-bow, round-headed, and square-headed fibulae al-ready noticed. The multlpllcationof the spiral coils,and the corresponding development of the frame-work finished everywher
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 4 illustrate the sketch of the probabledevelopment of the Teutonic fibula which has justbeen given. Fig. 52 shows a group of Romanbronze fibulae at Mainz, in which can be discernedembryo forms that were afterwards to be worked outinto the extended spirals, the knobs, the T shape,the variously shaped plates covering the springs,that appear later on In the more pronounced cross-bow, round-headed, and square-headed fibulae al-ready noticed. The multlpllcationof the spiral coils,and the corresponding development of the frame-work finished everywhere with projecting knobs, iswell shown in the famous early Germanic fibulae fromSackrau in the Museum at Breslau. The three rowsof spirals are quite exceptional. The back view ofthe one with tw^o rows is instructive (figs. 53 and 54).It will be seen that by this time the foot has becomea more or less kite-shaped plate with the catch sol-dered on underneath. The sudden change to thefibula cut out in a sheet of metal, with a head that 144 PLATE XIV.
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