16 



Haakon Schetelig-. 



[Nu. 8 



Another variety with knobs fixed only upon the axis of the 

 spring-coil has played no important part in the Western and Nor- 

 thern countries. In Scandinavia it is represented by some small 

 and simple specimens contemporary with the early crnciform broo- 

 ches (fig. 15). 1 ) They seem to disappear before the end of the 5th 

 cent.; at all events they were not preserved as long as the first 

 mentioned variety. I have seen one brooeh only which may be 

 countecl as a later development of this type (fig. 16), 2 ) though the 

 form of the foot of this brooeh certainly has been transferred from 

 a Prussian form. It is an interesting fact that influences from that 



country can be tra- 

 ced as far as Western 

 Norway, a fact which 

 is of importance re- 

 sp ecting some points 

 of the following in- 

 vestigation. 



At last we have 

 to study a third 

 variety with three 

 knobs, placed in 

 about the same man- 

 ner as in the Roman 

 brooches, or with 

 one knob only, pla- 

 ced at the top of the 

 bow. As a whole, 

 this form too has 

 been derived from 

 Fig. 15. Vj. the same Teutonic 



origin as the others 

 just mentioned; but the top-knob produces some clifference regard- 

 ing the arrangement of the hinge and the spring-coil. The knob 

 is not placed directly upon the bow but separated from it by the 

 small perpendicular plate, in the centre of which is fastened the 



r ) Kvasseim, Egersund pgd. Jæderen. B. 5275. 



-) Indre Bø, Stryns pgd. Nordfjord. B. 4842. Ab. 1891, p. 149, pl. II 



