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knobs building together the head of the brooches; we have seen 

 that this form is derived from Teutonic brooches and that it shows 

 little influence from Roman forms. It is certain that we must search 

 for the most primitive cruciform brooches in the country around the 

 mouth of the Elbe, as it has already been pronounced by dr. 

 Undset. The first cruciform brooches are numerous just in graves 

 in Hannover, Holstein, and Sleswick, and in the iind from the moss 

 of Nydam, but all their different stages of development are also 

 represented by specimens from Norwegian graves of the same age, 

 and one brooch of this sort has been found in England. It ought 



Fig. 18 



Fig. 19. Vi- 



to be remarked, however, that the Norwegian specimens generally 

 have lost some of the more original characters — for instance the 

 returned foot which is preserved only in a few cases, as in the 

 brooch fig. 19 — a circumstance indicating that the type was at 

 first introduced into Norway from Hannover and Holstein. 



I think it likely that this introduction has passee! Jutland, 

 though none of the oldest specimens have been found in that 

 country, as they have in the districts both South and North of it. 



