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Haakon Schetelig-. 



[No. 8 



Among the Eastern varieties of the cruciform brooches I have 

 briefly mentioned a small number whose foot ends in a semicircular 

 or a triangular plate. They-were pointed out as forms that, ap- 

 pearing first at a relatively late stage of development and never 

 very numerous, probably are to be regarded as a combination of 

 the cruciform type with details tåken from other types, and the 

 two forms mentioned have certainly come from different parts. But 

 before entering into the special research it must be remarked that 

 regarding most of these brooches it is impossible to establish a clear 

 distinction between specimens from the Eastern and from the Western 



parts of the Peninsula, 

 a fact probably ex- 

 plained by the foreign 

 origin of the form; 

 these brooches being in 

 some respect strangers 

 in Scandinavia were not 

 subject to local varia- 

 tions in the same degree 

 as the entirely native 

 forms. 



e. The semicircular 

 termination of the foot 

 is most commonly found 

 in the Prussian broo- 

 ches of the Migration 

 Period. G-enerally, 

 though not always, the 

 edge of the foot-plate 

 is in these brooches shaped like a cog-wheel, a form which has 

 caused the signification of brooches with star-pattern foot („Stern- 

 fussfibeln"), and very often they also have a little square plate at 

 the top of the bow. A Prussian brooch showing these characteristic 

 features is here given as fig. 104. 1 ) Such brooches are fouud also 

 in other districts around the Eastern Baltic and in Finland, 2 ) but 



Fiff. 99 



J ) From dr. Otto Tischler: Ostpreussische Altertumer, herausg. v. Hein- 

 rich Kemke, Kønigsberg 1902, taf IV, fig. 4. 



2 ) Dr. Alfred Hackman: Die altere Eisenzeit in Finland, Helsingfors 1905.. 

 p. 158 ss. pl. 3 and 4. 



