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towards the end of the development, but observed already at an 

 eavlier stage. I procced first to treat the Eastern forms which 

 preserve best the original character of the type. 



3. Development of the erueiform brooehes in the Eastern 

 parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 



The Swedish archacologists, in their description of the typology 

 of the erueiform brooehes, assert as a general rule that the two 

 knobs which were at first placed upon the ends of the axis of the 

 spring-coil, gradually lost their suggested practical destination - 



to keep the axis and the coil in 

 their proper place - - and became 

 mere ornamental parts of the broo- 

 ehes. It seemed then natural to avoid 

 the original and more complicated 

 arrangement of these knobs by cast- 

 ing them in the same piece as the 

 main part of the brooch, 1 ) and this 

 change, which removed all practical 

 difficulties respecting the construc- 

 tion of the pin, was just the be- 

 ginning of the pure ornamental 

 development of the form. Generally 

 speaking, this pronouncement very 

 well corresponds Avith the facts 

 known; it must be understood, how- 

 ever, that the rule is at no time 

 without exceptions, that the trans- 

 formation took place much later in England than in the Scandinavian 

 Peninsula, and that in Denmark traces of it are not found at all. 

 It must be counted, however, among the most important points in 



*) A similar change had tåken place already at an eavlier stage of 

 development respecting the knob placed at the top of the brooch. In the case 

 of specimens belonging to the prototype of the erueiform brooehes also the third 

 knob is made separately and fixed upon a projection continuing the loop of 

 the axis, figs. 17, 19, and 22. The same detail is observed in a brooch of the 

 half Roman form (Tromsø Museums Aarshefte 1904, p. 247, fig. 1) and is even 

 preserved in some erueiform brooehes Avith fully developed head-plate (for in- 

 stance C. 7752, Ab. 1876, p. 72, from Østerhus, Landvik pgd. Nedenes.) 



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