The text panel accompanying the plate states:
PLATE VIII.
1. A SAXON or Frankish Fibula with bow front, a rectangular cross-piece at the top, and pierced border; the lower part is also pierced and elaborately ornamented in relief with scrolls and animals' heads. This specimen is a copy in silver from the original at Copenhagen.
2. A plain bow-shaped Fibula, the pin coiled round a cross wire at the top to form a spring, apparently of Roman work.
3. A small gilt bronze Fibula, bowed centre, semicircular top with five projecting bosses; the lower part is lozenge-shaped, terminating in an animal's head.
4. An Anglo-Saxon gold Fibula, with semicircular top and seven projecting bosses; the whole surface is ornamented with gold cloisons or partitions arranged in patterns and set with flat garnets. Of the sixth century.
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are from the Collection of John Evans Esq.; No 4 is from the Collection of W. H. Forman, Esq.
Comment from Tania Dickinson, senior lecturer in Archaeology, University of York (3rd April 2008): A colleague has drawn my attention to the short feature in the latest Conservation Bulletin about the NMR's acquisition of 16 photographs from the National Exhibition of Works at Leeds in 1868, with its example of four Late Roman/Migration Period brooches (though the attributions there are not altogether accurate: the large one is the famous Gummersmark brooch in the Nat Museum at Copenhagen; the two radiate-headed brooches are Merovingian period Continental; only the simple bow brooch on the left is Roman Iron Age).
This is part of the Volume: AL2029 Album of photographs of archaeological finds displayed at the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds in 1868; within the Collection: WXC01 Photographically illustrated book written by William Chaffers of archaeological finds displayed at an exhibition in Leeds in 1868
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Cundall & Fleming
Archaeology, Art And Design, Exhibition
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