[Illustration: Fig. 222. ANGLO-SAXON BRONZE GILT FIBULA.[221] Simulation
of Swastika. Long Wittenham, Berkshire, England.]
[Illustration: Fig. 223. POTTERY URN. Band of twenty hand-made Swastikas,
white, on blackish ground. Shropham, Norfolk, England. British Museum.
Waring, "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," pl. 3, fig. 50.]
_Britain._--Greg reports[222] a silver disk 1-1/2 inches in diameter, with
a triskelion made by punched dots, in the same style as the pin heads from
Armenia (figs. 35 and 36). This was from grave 95 in an Anglo-Saxon
cemetery at Sleafors, England, excavated by George W. Thomas and sold at
Boston; bought by A. W. Franks and given to the British Museum. Grave 143
had a large cruciform fibula of bronze, partly gilt, similar to those from
Scandinavia, with a Swastika on the central ornament thus [symbol]. The
slight curve or flourish on the outer end of the bent arm of this specimen
resembles the Jain Swastika (fig. 33), though this bends to the left,
while the Jain Swastikas bend to the right. Fig. 222 shows an Anglo-Saxon
bronze gilt fibula with a peculiar form of Swastika leaving a square with
dot and circle in its center. It was found in Long Wittenham, Berkshire,
was reported in Archæologia,[223] and is figured by Waring.[224] A figure
having great similarity to this, even in its peculiarities and called a
Swastika, was found on a shell in Toco Mound, Tennessee (fig. 238). Fig.
223 represents an Anglo-Saxon urn from Shropham, Norfolk. Its decorations
consist of isolated figures like crosses, etc., arranged in horizontal
bands around the vessel, and separated by moldings. The lower row consists
of Swastikas of small size stamped into the clay and arranged in isolated
squares. There are twenty Swastikas in the band; though they all turn to
the right, they are not repetitions. They were made by hand and not with
the stamp. They are white on a blackish ground. The original, which is in
the British Museum, is cited by Kemble and figured by Waring.[225]