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Fig. 33. Combatants armed with axe and shield and javelin and shield
Cott. MS. Cleop. C. viii, f. 24. British Museum
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Fig. 34. Saxon bronze bit
Found in the Thames at Wandsworth. London Museum
It must not be considered that the armaments which we have described as of old English origin were used in Britain alone; they represent the weapons of nearly all civilized Europe of the first quarter of the XIth century; we are likewise reluctantly forced to admit that the continental countries were ever in advance of Britain in the adaptation of new types, also that the continental workmanship shows a slight ascendancy over our
