. The arts in early England. ry ; thin gold was thenlaid on and pressed down, the mercury being subsequently volati-lized, and the gold fixed by heating to It may benoticed here that besides gold and silver tin was largely usedfor the coating of other metals. Gilding is found commonlyapplied to both bronze and silver and occasionally to , silver, it is curious to note, is comparatively rarelyfound plated over bronze,4 but, in Germanic work generally, 1 Archaeologia, lv, 190. 2 Troc. Soc. Ant., 2 Ser, xxi, 37. 3 There is an iron spear head found at Durham and preserved in
. The arts in early England. ry ; thin gold was thenlaid on and pressed down, the mercury being subsequently volati-lized, and the gold fixed by heating to It may benoticed here that besides gold and silver tin was largely usedfor the coating of other metals. Gilding is found commonlyapplied to both bronze and silver and occasionally to , silver, it is curious to note, is comparatively rarelyfound plated over bronze,4 but, in Germanic work generally, 1 Archaeologia, lv, 190. 2 Troc. Soc. Ant., 2 Ser, xxi, 37. 3 There is an iron spear head found at Durham and preserved in the cathe-dral library that has traces of gilding on it, but it is of the Danish period. 4 Les Francs incrustaient quelquefois, mais le plus souvent ils pla-quaient largent, non sur le cuivre ou le bronze, mais sur le fer, et il nestpas a ma connaissance quon ait jamais trouve une boucle de bronze incrusteeon damasquinee dargent dans un cimetiere Franc, Pilloy, Etudes, i, 277. LX facing p. 319 HUMAN FORM AND FACE IN ORNAMENT. J, 4, J, 8, g, are Continental ANTHROPOMORPHIC ORNAMENT 319 very frequently over iron. In Anglo-Saxon England we haveseen that the large iron buckles on which the Franks andBurgundians displayed their skill in plating are conspicuousby their absence, so that there is not so much silver platingon iron here as on the Continent. On bronze, both at homeand abroad, what appears to be silver is as often as not ineffect tin, but silver plating on bronze undoubtedly occursamong Anglo-Saxon technical processes, and instances will benoticed later on. The technique by which were produced the figures ofanimals round the chape of the Brighthampton sword,PI. xxvii, 8 (p. 221), is not easy to determine. The animalsare apparently in gold, the ground is silver, but the onemetal is not inlaid in the other. The process seems to havebeen one of plating, and there is some indication that theoutlines were reinforced by an incised line. The style ofwork is in this country of the
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