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Danish and English fonns. We have also seen several specimens 

 of it among the early brooches illustrated above, which all show 

 that the form here in question is perhaps the one that most pro- 

 perly belongs to the crueiform type and best corresponds with the 

 original shape of the foot. We have seen that most of the early 

 specimens are long and narrow in all the countries where crueiform 



Fig. 53. Vi- 



Fig. 54. Vi- 



brooches are found; but also here, as was the case respecting the 

 forms treated above, we soon flnd some differences characteristic of 

 the different districts. In Denmark and England the facetted stem 

 is generally made shorter, so that it must be regarded only as a 

 link of connexion between the animal-head and the bow, and traces 



