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kind that prompted the following remarks from Mr. Akerman 

 in discussing the origin of Anglo Saxon ornaments : " A 

 question has lately arisen among antiquaries as to the country 

 of their fabrication. Some have maintained that they are the 

 work of the Anglo-Saxons, while others have contended for their 

 Byzantine origin ; but, unless we can be assured that the Gold- 

 smiths of the Eastern Empire wrought these fibula (buckles or 

 pendants), for export to other countries, we must seek some 

 other city as the place of their manufacture. That city was in 

 all probability, Paris. These remarks apply more particularly 

 to the buckles studded with pastes and precious stones, which 

 there is every reason to believe were imported from the con- 

 tinent. Merovingian places of sepulture have been explored in 

 France, and though some of the relics discovered therein differ 

 from those found in Anglo-Saxon Tumuli some of the buckles 

 are identically the same."* 



Now without at all subscribing to the notion that remains of 

 this kind emanated from Paris we cannot consider that an ornament 

 because it is beautiful must be of Eoman workmanship, nor, from 

 the same cause do we allow that it must have been Parisian, as 

 we look upon it that the Saxons were also clever in work of this 

 description, and it by no means follows that because a good 

 piece of work is found in proximity with Roman remains that it 

 must of necessity be of Eoman origin. 



THE EDITOE. 



* Archaeological Index, p. 126. 



