The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . at the MuseeCarnavalet It is fifteen inches long, the breadth,vertically, of the buckle ring is four and a quarterinches and that of the plate attached to the ringthree and a half. The tongue is seven-eighths ofan inch thick. The thickness of the iron plate, sofar as can be ascertained in its corroded state, israther more than three-eiehths of an inch. A fineBurgundian buckle from Petigny in the Museum atPribourg in Switzerland shown in fig. 63 is fifteeninches long over all and three and a half incheswide at the broadest part of the plate. Of
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . at the MuseeCarnavalet It is fifteen inches long, the breadth,vertically, of the buckle ring is four and a quarterinches and that of the plate attached to the ringthree and a half. The tongue is seven-eighths ofan inch thick. The thickness of the iron plate, sofar as can be ascertained in its corroded state, israther more than three-eiehths of an inch. A fineBurgundian buckle from Petigny in the Museum atPribourg in Switzerland shown in fig. 63 is fifteeninches long over all and three and a half incheswide at the broadest part of the plate. Of the buckles illustrated, figs. 61 and 62 areGothic pieces from Kiev and Odessa respectively,the birds head on fig. 62 being especially 63 is the large iron buckle at Pribourg noticedin the text, and fig. 64 shows bronze buckles atBoulogne of Prankish provenance. The completespecimen was found in a womans grave. The finegolden buckle set with garnets at Stuttgart () is so like the still finer piece from Apahida in 148 PLATE XVI.
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