The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . s. The form of theumbo varies, and the most common shape on thewholeisthat of the Prankish and Burgundian bossesshown in fig. 21, where a depressed hemisphererisine to a central stud is mounted on a rim con-cave in section. At the base the iron spreads outinto a flat plate concentric with the raised part,through which rivets, sometimes with ornamentalheads, fasten the iron to the wood. This form ofumbo is fairly well distributed, but there is a speci-ality about those found in the graves of the Lom-bards in that the centre of the boss is orname
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . s. The form of theumbo varies, and the most common shape on thewholeisthat of the Prankish and Burgundian bossesshown in fig. 21, where a depressed hemisphererisine to a central stud is mounted on a rim con-cave in section. At the base the iron spreads outinto a flat plate concentric with the raised part,through which rivets, sometimes with ornamentalheads, fasten the iron to the wood. This form ofumbo is fairly well distributed, but there is a speci-ality about those found in the graves of the Lom-bards in that the centre of the boss is ornamented,as may be seen in fig. 28. This is of Lombardstyle but not actually of Lombard provenance, as itwas found in the Rhineland. Rarer forms of theumbo are conical, the sides of the cone beingsometimes convex, sometimes concave, and some-times straight. The sharp point of some of thesecones suggests that they might have been used asweapons. The diameter of the shields in the moss-findsfrom Schleswig varies from twenty-two to forty- 128 PLATE VII.
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