The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ern England. See fig. 84 on PlateXXI. Bronze casting on a small scale is largely usedfor the production of fibulae and buckles. Forgedbuckles of iron were often attached to the leatheror folded linen of the belt by rivets of iron or bronze,the round heads of which projected in decorativefashion on the upper surface of the buckle buckles of a similar form were moulded inbronze similar round-headed rivets are sometimesused, as in the tinned bronze buckle at Brusselsshown in fig. 105, but as a rule certain tongueswere cast on to the und
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ern England. See fig. 84 on PlateXXI. Bronze casting on a small scale is largely usedfor the production of fibulae and buckles. Forgedbuckles of iron were often attached to the leatheror folded linen of the belt by rivets of iron or bronze,the round heads of which projected in decorativefashion on the upper surface of the buckle buckles of a similar form were moulded inbronze similar round-headed rivets are sometimesused, as in the tinned bronze buckle at Brusselsshown in fig. 105, but as a rule certain tongueswere cast on to the under surface of the plate, whichpassed through slits in the band and were fastenedon the other side with transverse pins (fig. 106).It is curious however to find still the old projectinground heads of the rivets, as in fig. 107, reproducedin the casting on the upper surface of the buckleplate, though they are now purely decorative. Thiswould seem to show that the forged iron bucklepreceded the cast bronze one in typological develop- 192 PLATE XXVI. lOI
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