Anglo Saxon women of the 8th century. One riding side-saddle on a horse, the other spinning yarn with a bobbin. Both wearing hooded veils and long gowns over linen robes. From the Old English Hexateuch, Cotton MS Claudius B iv. Ancient lyre from Cotton MS Tiberius B v. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by John Hill, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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