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brooch bear evident marks of its Teutonic origin; it must be ranged 

 among the similar Teutonic brooches flgured above. 



It is clear that such imitations of the Roman brooches have 

 little to do with the origin of the type especially signified — in 

 England and Scandinavia — as the cruciforra brooches. The brooches 

 figs. 7 — 10 and others of the same family, though not completely 

 without descendants among the later Scandinavian forms, are well 

 distinguished from the cruciform brooches in the meaning I have 



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given to this signifacation. The question being of some interest, I 

 will in a few words mention some brooches which are, I think, 

 representing the later development of the half Roman forms, in 

 spite of my studies upon this point not being quite complete. I think 

 it is necessary to explain in that way the specimens figs. 11 and 12 ; x ) 



J ) Fig. 11: Vestre Vestrum, Hedrum pgd. Larvik. C. 12377. Ab. 1885, 

 p. 114. — Fig. 12: Bjerke, Hedrum pgd. Larvik. 0. 249B. Rygh fig. 245. 



