backturned

Updated: May 18, 2025

Those fantastic animals with strange out-stretched legs and backturned heads and eager eyes; those tiny scrolls scattered by way of decoration above or below them; the rude beading which serves, not ineffectively, for ornament or for dividing line; the suggestion of returning spirals; the evident delight of the artist in plant and animal forms and his neglect of the human figure all these are Celtic.

F. (Francis) Haverfield - The Romanization of Roman Britain