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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
name on coins of Veric , and Segonax , and many other princes , Avidely differing in point of time , ancl widely distant in jjoint of location . Moreover , this same Tasciovanus must have been tlie father-in-law of Boadicea . It seems noir generally understood , that TASCIO is an ancient British word , and signifies simply a chief or prince .
In whatever way we understand the inscriptions on the coins of our earliest ancestors in this island , they can never be destitute of interest . Tlie same jieriod presents us with glass beads , some of exceeding beauty and A ' ariety ; occasionally they are found in barrowsAvith the bones of the deadand sometimes alone . In later
, , ages , they Avere imagined to be the production of serpents , and many mystic legends were related of them . Celts , or stone axes , too , occur in the same situations , and occasionally small axes of copper or brass , mixed Avith arroAv-heads of flint : for eA en at a very early period , the British nation Avas partial to that weapon , Avith Avhich they afterAvards did good seiwice at Crecy and
Aginconrt . The Saxon period introduces a different kind of art . The country hacl been long civilized with the ciA'ilization of Rome ; ancl the Saxons , to AA hom it had come from the same source , but through another channel , found themselves very inferior to the people they had oA ercome . It is an interesting task to take
such a book as that AYhich Mr . Trollope has lately published , objects of ancient art , obtained from Pompeii ancl Herculaneum , ancl presented in the Museo Borbonico , at Naples , and to compare the A'essels and ornaments there depicted , Avith those represented in Mr . Akerman ' s relics of Pagan Saxondom : Ave see the rough , incompetent Avorkmanship , but we trace that the Saxon mind has caught the artistic idea . A remarkable specimen may be seen in the coin subjoined .
The Anglo-Saxon artist had found a coin of Valentinian III ., and Avithout any very accurate idea of its meaning , he endeavoured to make his own Avork look like it . Hence AVC have Ceolwulf , a Mercian king , Avith the diadem of a Roman emperor ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Antiquaries And Antiquities.
name on coins of Veric , and Segonax , and many other princes , Avidely differing in point of time , ancl widely distant in jjoint of location . Moreover , this same Tasciovanus must have been tlie father-in-law of Boadicea . It seems noir generally understood , that TASCIO is an ancient British word , and signifies simply a chief or prince .
In whatever way we understand the inscriptions on the coins of our earliest ancestors in this island , they can never be destitute of interest . Tlie same jieriod presents us with glass beads , some of exceeding beauty and A ' ariety ; occasionally they are found in barrowsAvith the bones of the deadand sometimes alone . In later
, , ages , they Avere imagined to be the production of serpents , and many mystic legends were related of them . Celts , or stone axes , too , occur in the same situations , and occasionally small axes of copper or brass , mixed Avith arroAv-heads of flint : for eA en at a very early period , the British nation Avas partial to that weapon , Avith Avhich they afterAvards did good seiwice at Crecy and
Aginconrt . The Saxon period introduces a different kind of art . The country hacl been long civilized with the ciA'ilization of Rome ; ancl the Saxons , to AA hom it had come from the same source , but through another channel , found themselves very inferior to the people they had oA ercome . It is an interesting task to take
such a book as that AYhich Mr . Trollope has lately published , objects of ancient art , obtained from Pompeii ancl Herculaneum , ancl presented in the Museo Borbonico , at Naples , and to compare the A'essels and ornaments there depicted , Avith those represented in Mr . Akerman ' s relics of Pagan Saxondom : Ave see the rough , incompetent Avorkmanship , but we trace that the Saxon mind has caught the artistic idea . A remarkable specimen may be seen in the coin subjoined .
The Anglo-Saxon artist had found a coin of Valentinian III ., and Avithout any very accurate idea of its meaning , he endeavoured to make his own Avork look like it . Hence AVC have Ceolwulf , a Mercian king , Avith the diadem of a Roman emperor ,