The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 68 65. GOLD BUCKLE AT STUTTGART. 67. GOLD CROSS OF LOMBARD CHARACTER. 66. TONGUE OF STRAP, MAINZ. 68. BUCKLE TONGUES, ALTENBURG, HUN- GARY. VARIEGATED GLASS BEADS wich, in 115 graves 32 bead necklaces were found,the largest containing 108 beads. They are how-ever not of Teutonic manufacture but were certainlyimported products, and they do not belongspecially toour period, for they were popular in Roman circles andequally beloved in the earlier Celtic period. Theirplace of origin is not definitely known, but Dr. Kisain his recent work on Glass i
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 68 65. GOLD BUCKLE AT STUTTGART. 67. GOLD CROSS OF LOMBARD CHARACTER. 66. TONGUE OF STRAP, MAINZ. 68. BUCKLE TONGUES, ALTENBURG, HUN- GARY. VARIEGATED GLASS BEADS wich, in 115 graves 32 bead necklaces were found,the largest containing 108 beads. They are how-ever not of Teutonic manufacture but were certainlyimported products, and they do not belongspecially toour period, for they were popular in Roman circles andequally beloved in the earlier Celtic period. Theirplace of origin is not definitely known, but Dr. Kisain his recent work on Glass in Antiquity is inclinedto seek it at Alexandria. Though he admits thatbeads of the kind were made by the Romans, evenin Britain, he states it as his conviction that theseornaments, equally beloved by the barbarians of thenorth and by the negroes of the east and westcoasts of Africa, in the vast majority of cases wereexported from the great emporium of world industryAlexandria. Dr. Evans and others have suggested that theymight have been made in
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