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Haakon Schetelig. 



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of our series. We are forced, therefore, to exclude from our special 

 research both the Roman brooches of the 4th cent. and the Teutonic 

 imitations of them, as they have not directly contributed to the 

 development of the cruciform type, and by searching elsewhere for 

 the origin of the detail in question — the plate at the top of the 

 bow, which is commonly called the „head-plate" of the brooch — we 

 must aeknowledge the non-Roman origin of the cruciform brooches. 

 The brooches with returned foot appear in the Western and 

 Northern parts of the Teutonic distriet in the form given nere 

 as flg. 14. 1 ) They are rather large brooches, always with a semi- 

 circular bow, a very short spring-coil, and a long and narrow foot. 



Fiff. 11. 



Fis-. 12 



They have often a knob placed at the top of the bow, or two knobs 

 flxed upon the axis of the spring-coil; in most cases there are three 

 knobs, one at the top of the bow, and two iixed upon the axis. 

 The knobs have probably been introduced here by imitation of 

 Roman forms, though many other Teutonic brooches of the same 

 age are providecl with knobs partly showing forms very different 

 from the Roman ones. But at least the knobs here in question 

 recall the Roman taste. This is, however, a circumstance of no 



J ) Myklebostad, Lødingen pgcl. Nordland. C. 10617. Ab. 1881, p. 143. 



