. The arts in early England. ied types and on the whole types thatare earlier in morphological development. They are alsomore interesting artistically, and it is noteworthy that the oneparticular type that is frequent in Holland while it hardlymakes its appearance among ourselves is a conventional deviceof no artistic value. This is the so-called Sigillum Davidis,a device of two interlocked triangles, for a specimen of whichsee the Frankish silver coin of triental form No. 13 on PL occurs on Dutch sceattas, as at Hallum and Franeker,and is later on taken up and perpetuated in the Carol
. The arts in early England. ied types and on the whole types thatare earlier in morphological development. They are alsomore interesting artistically, and it is noteworthy that the oneparticular type that is frequent in Holland while it hardlymakes its appearance among ourselves is a conventional deviceof no artistic value. This is the so-called Sigillum Davidis,a device of two interlocked triangles, for a specimen of whichsee the Frankish silver coin of triental form No. 13 on PL occurs on Dutch sceattas, as at Hallum and Franeker,and is later on taken up and perpetuated in the Carolingianpenny series which everywhere superseded the sceattas. Thedevice occurred on an object in the famous Gallo- or, rather,Franco-Roman tomb of about 400 opened at Vermand in theAisne district of France and described by M. Eck ofSt. Quentin,2 and is found on a fine Carolingian gold ring in 1 Leeuwarden, 1909, p. 77. 2 Les deux Cimetieres ga 11 o-romains de Vermand et de Saint-^uentin,Paris, 1891. SCEATTAS ENGLISH AND DUTCH. All silver; enlarged about 2 diameters VALUE OF INSCRIBED SCEATTAS 79 the museum at Zurich. It belongs apparently to this partof Europe, but it does not occur in Anglo-Saxon ornamenta-tion on the tomb furniture and only in one or two instanceson coins, as on a sceat that was a late addition to Mr. Carlyon-Brittons collection and on a penny of Offa in the BritishMuseum. Its occurrence in Holland gives sceat fabricationa local habitat in that country, for the sceattas found therecannot in their entirety be an import from England as we donot seem to have had any Sigillum Davidis coins to sendaway. There is a certain treatment of the animal form verycommon in Holland and comparatively rare in Britain thatalso seems a product of Frisian mints. This is noticed lateron (p. 91). On the other hand the occurrence on certainsceattas of the name of London as a place of mintage, and oncertain others the names of known English kings such asiEthelred of Mercia, establish
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