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V. A Letter addressed by Charles Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., to John Gage Rokewode, Esq., F.R.S., Director, on an ancient enamelled Ouche, in Gold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Charles Roach Smith Esq.
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I now proceed to submit to you some remarks on the presumed Saxon Fibula or Ouche, which I had the pleasure to exhibit last year to the Society. (Plate X.)

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Archaeologia , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1841 , pp. 70 - 75
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1841

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page 72 note a It is probable that this fibula might have been used for fastening the mantle to the shoulder. Throughout the Saxon illuminated manuscripts, the fibula or brooch appears as one of the chief characteristics of nobility, generally on the shoulder, though sometimes it secures the mantle in front.

page 74 note d Ingram's Saxon Chronicle, p. 94. The great pomp with which Ethelwulf visited Rome is also mentioned. The love of this prince for show and ornament is also apparent by the costly work he made for the shrine of St. Aldhelm.—Will. Malmesbury, de Pontificibus, Lib. v.

page 74 note e See Montfaucon's Monarchie Francaise, vol. i. plate xxvi.