The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . for the neck, the arm, and the fingertake many forms. A gold circlet set with garnetsformed a part of the early Sackrau treasure alreadynoticed and is shown in fig. 69. A collection ofneck and arm rings of Scandinavian origin in theMuseum at Stockholm is given in fig. 70. Fig. 71shows a finger ring of gold with an incised designstill encircling the bone of the finger that wore is at Fribourg and was found in 1908 at Lussynear Romont. Of all personal ornaments apart from dress fasten-ings the most popular were the strings of variegatedglas
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . for the neck, the arm, and the fingertake many forms. A gold circlet set with garnetsformed a part of the early Sackrau treasure alreadynoticed and is shown in fig. 69. A collection ofneck and arm rings of Scandinavian origin in theMuseum at Stockholm is given in fig. 70. Fig. 71shows a finger ring of gold with an incised designstill encircling the bone of the finger that wore is at Fribourg and was found in 1908 at Lussynear Romont. Of all personal ornaments apart from dress fasten-ings the most popular were the strings of variegatedglass beads which are the almost constant accom-paniment of the richer female interments. These beads, a set of which is given in fig. 109, onPlate XXVIII, are a theme by themselves and havenever yet been the subject of a really searching in-vestigation. They are widely dispersed, but wereperhaps specially favoured by the peoples along theRhine and by the Teutonic conquerors of our ownisland. In the recently excavated cemetery at Ips- 150 PLATE XVII. 65
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