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Haakon Schetelig. 



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brooches, especially from the Southern parts of that country, as 

 seen in %s. 70— 71, 1 ) all of them being rather late specimens. I 

 have not seen the three Pommeranian brooches myself, and therefore 

 I am not able to make out whether they are to be regarded as 

 imported from Sweden or as brooches made in the country where 

 they were found; but as some of their details - - for instance the 

 rounded corners of the plate — as far as I have seen, are unknown 

 in Scandinavia, I am inclined to think the latter possibility the 

 most likely one, though the fincl seems to be a quite unique appear- 

 ance in the whole of Northern Germany. But howsoever this may 

 be decided, I think it certain in any case that the appearance in 



Piff. 69. 



Pommerania of the cruciform brooches, which must be referred to 

 the late 5th cent., is due to an influence from the Scandinavian 

 Peninsula, and that they may well be ranged in the series of de- 

 velopment within the Eastern district. Dr. H. Schumann has kindly 

 informed me that all the three specimens have the knobs east in 

 one piece with the rest of the brooch, a proceeding which has 

 never been met with in Sleswick-Holstein and very rarely in Den- 

 mark. I cannot agree with the pronouncement of dr. Schujmanx 



a ) Fig. 70: from Montelius: från Jernålclem, pl. 4, fig. 13. — Fig. 71: 

 Halland. Stockholm Museum nr. 7331 : 597. From a sketch by the author. 



