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type as the following four ligures (figs. 3— 6). 1 ) They have all the 

 upper knob placed directly upon the top of the bow, and the heavy 

 and solid character of the form with its thick and sharply facetted 

 bow gives them rather a Roman appearance compared with the 

 pure Teutonic brooches of the 4th cent. They 

 are, however, most decidedly pointed out as 

 a form imported in our district by the 

 circumstance tliat they are always very rare 2 ), 

 while the genuine Teutonic type, our cruci- 

 form brooch, is found in great numbers. As 

 is seen from the ligures, the Roman type has, 

 in the Northern countries, gone through no 

 remarkable development, but only some more 

 general changes, which followed its transfer 

 into Teutonic hands; the foot has become 

 longer and narrower, and the tension of the 

 pin is nearly always brought about by a short 

 spring-coil, the Romans generally preferring 

 for this purpose a simple hinge with back- 

 stop. The ornamentation too, as seen in figs. 

 5 and 6, is purely Teutonic, and the trans- 

 verse section of the bow in figs. 4 and 6 has 

 certainly a non-Roman appearance. 



The introduction of this form into Scandi- 

 navia must date from the 4th cent. which was 

 the last period of the direct influence of Roman 

 forms among the Northern barbarians. An 

 ornamentation consisting of strips of silver 

 inlaid in the surface, as seen in fig. 5, was 

 probably especially much used in the early 

 part of the 5th cent. and may be tåken as a 

 hint for the fixing of the date of that brooch. 

 The next one, fig. 6, might be referred to the same century, and probably 

 the latter half of it, as it was found associated with a bronze-vessel 



Fig. 6 



x ) Fig. 3: Stockholm Museum, no. 3191, published with the kind per- 

 mission of the Museum and Academy of Stockholm; — fig. 4: Slettebø, Eger- 

 sund pgd. Jæderen, B. 2293, Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 54; — fig. 5: Bygh, 

 fig. 242; — fig. 6: Tveiten, Mo pgd. Telemarken, C. 8434, Ab. 1877, fig. 16. 



2 ) Compare Almgren, 1. c. p. 88, and 198. He makes in his lists no 

 difference between the Boman brooches of this sort and the Teutonic imitations. 



