 | George Cornelius Gorham - Eynesbury (England) - 1824 - 658 pages
...relative, and the spiritual counsellor of the King, and that he was venerated by Alfred above all other a Saints. As to the use to which this piece of Jewelry...was attached to the end of a cylinder, upon which to notice it. [Whitaker's Life of St. Neot, p. 273, edit. 1806.] Dr. Hickes conjectured that the Holy... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1852 - 590 pages
...the reverse of the gem, the lower jaw is wanting, and its place is supplied by a scaly flat surface. As to the use to which this piece of jewelry was appropriated,...Musgrave, and the late Mr Whitaker, imagined that it must have been worn on the breast dependent from the chain that passed round the neck, in a way similar... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1858 - 596 pages
...the reverse of the gem, the lower jaw is wanting, and its place is supplied by a scaly flat surface. As to the use to which this piece of jewelry was appropriated,...Musgrave, and the late Mr Whitaker, imagined that it must have been worn on the breast dependent from the chain that passed round the neck, in a way similar... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Coins, Anglo-Saxon - 1863 - 416 pages
...the reverse of the gem, the lower jaw is wanting, and its place is supplied by a scaly flat surface. As to the use to which this piece of jewelry was appropriated,...Musgrave, and the late Mr Whitaker, imagined that it must have been worn on the breast dependent from the chain that passed round the neck, in a way similar... | |
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... probably (says Dr Musgrave) a dolphin, or perhaps a griffin, the national emblem of the Saxons, having in its mouth a small tube, traversed by a strong rivet, to which a chain was doubtlessly attached ; on the reverse of the gem, the lower jaw is... 