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Anglo-Saxon Vine-scroll Ornament

Part of: Anglo-Saxon archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ernst Kitzinger
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The principal questions concerning the origin and chronology of Anglo-Saxon sculpture are still awaiting their final settlement. As there is so little external evidence for dating the monuments, it seems probable that only such a method as that so successfully adopted by Mlle. Henry in her book on Irish sculpture can offer a useful approach to the problems they raise. This method implies a separate analysis of each decorative element, research as to its origin, and a comparison wherever possible of its various evolutionary stages with better dated examples in other arts or other countries. The arrangement of the different motives in series can be collated by the evidence offered when they occur on the same monument, and by this means at least approximate dates for single monuments can be obtained.

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Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 37 , March 1936 , pp. 61 - 71
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1936

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