An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 201.—Bronzebell. Dowris. 4. REPOUSSE WORK. The capabilities of the Bronze Age artist for repousseworking in the alloy, and the excellence of his craftman-ship, are well illustrated by a number of circular Shieldsor Bucklers which have been discovered in different partsof the British Isles, Three may be mentioned in illustra-tion. The first, dragged up from the bed of the Isis nearLittle Wittenhain in 1836, is so small, being not muchmore than a foot in diameter, that it probably formed onlypart of the actual shield. The design, however, is
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 201.—Bronzebell. Dowris. 4. REPOUSSE WORK. The capabilities of the Bronze Age artist for repousseworking in the alloy, and the excellence of his craftman-ship, are well illustrated by a number of circular Shieldsor Bucklers which have been discovered in different partsof the British Isles, Three may be mentioned in illustra-tion. The first, dragged up from the bed of the Isis nearLittle Wittenhain in 1836, is so small, being not muchmore than a foot in diameter, that it probably formed onlypart of the actual shield. The design, however, is similar ^ Wilson, Prehistoric Art, in Smithsonian Report {id>i)6), Fig. 279,p. 627. - A. Mosso, Dawn of Mediterranean Civilization^ Fig. 180, p. 318. 174 PREHISTORIC ART. Fig. 202.— Bronze buckler. Yetholm, Roxburghshire. (One-sixth size.) THE BRONZE AGE 175 to that which is characteristic of most of these bucklers,viz. concentric series of raised circular knobs alternatingwith narrow raised bands. In this example there are onlytwo series of raised bosses, separated from one anotherand from the central umbo by a raised band. Considerableingenuity is shown in making the two rivets of the handleresemble on the outside the raised bosses, so as to appearas part of the inner series. Two bosses of the outsideseries are in like manner rivets for straps or buttons on the
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