Description

Both of the women are wearing dresses with tight fitting bodices and full hooped skirts

'Looking onto the Quadrangle at Windsor'

and lizards wrapped round fire dogs

from the Park

Saxon fibulae Finish:Single Both of the women areSaxon fibulae, (1910). Brooches used for fastening capes or mantles, found at a Saxon burying place near Banbury in Oxfordshire. Fibulae were generally found in pairs, each two corresponding to the right and left shoulders. They were mostly concave, and made of copper or brass. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).

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