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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1258870, member: 5833"]A lot of wealth up that alley! See that, of course, kyra is right & it is Guiraud, not Giraud as site has it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They are all what I would call penannular brooches. I think of fibulae as being essentially shaped more like an archer's bow, with lots of elaborations.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula_(brooch)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula_(brooch)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula_(brooch)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1258870, member: 5833"]A lot of wealth up that alley! See that, of course, kyra is right & it is Guiraud, not Giraud as site has it. They are all what I would call penannular brooches. I think of fibulae as being essentially shaped more like an archer's bow, with lots of elaborations. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula_(brooch)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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