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the body of foreign soldiers brought into the country with Philippa, the 

 young queen of Edward III. The brooches were evidently worn in 

 pairs at some period, and the moulding below the head of the pin is 

 characteristic ; while the specimen illustrated (see fig.) retains a fragment 

 of linen textile on the pin, showing that it had been fixed to the garment 

 at the time of burial. Another still bears a piece of leather inserted 

 between the ring and the pin head, and the same was found to be the 

 case at Hyde Abbey. The discoveries at Audley End and Winchester 

 certainly point to the early twelfth century, and the minor antiquities of 

 the Norman period are as yet but imperfectly known ; but such a date for 

 the Lambourn Down and Reading specimens does not seem appropriate, 

 and this discrepancy must be our excuse for including these brooches in 

 the present chapter. 



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