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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ly two wooden effigies in the county, thesecond one being in the cathedral at Gloucester. The carveddetails of this figure show that it was represented in a suitof chain mail. A hauberk reaches to the middle of the thighs,with long sleeves covering the hands. On the head is a coifde mailles with skull cap beneath, without the supportingstrap round the forehead being shown. The chausses coverthe legs .and feet, and there are no spur straps. Over all isworn a loose flowing surcoat reaching just below the knees,cut open to the waist and girdled by a very narrow cingulum.Below, passing across the hips, is a broad sword-belt (nobuckle visible), to which is attached a cross-hilted sword, theend of the belt appearing to pass completely round thescabbard with the tag end passed through the lower loop.Borne upright on the left arm is a kite shield, fastened to anarrow guige passing over the right shoulder. The left handholds the scabbard, and the right (mutilated) probably restedon the pommel.
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Monumental Effigies. 137 6. Thehead rests on two square pillows, the, top one,small and tasselled, being set diagonally. 7. The feet rest on a small lion facing the knight. 8. The effigy and its slab are carved out of one piece ofoak, and the body made hollow to prevent splitting. It isplaced within a plain arched recess, with bosses of foliagesimilar to another recess adjoining. 9. There is no inscription.A Knight, about 1270. 10. The figure is now painted a deep chocolate colour.Originally it would have been decorated. After thedetails of the carving were finished, a thin coating of gessowas spread all over the wood, and made thicker where thechain mail appeared, the rings of the latter being stampedwith metal dies. The surface was then painted with tempera, the mail covered with gold and silver leaf, andfinally the whole figure protected by a coat of varnish.1 11. The whole surface is exceedingly worn and rugged,,and the details of the costume are difficult to trace. Theright arm a

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