86 



Haakon Schetelig;. 



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only reminiscence of the original form, (Montelius: Från jern- 

 åldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, compare Hackman: Die altere Eisenzeit in 

 Finland, I, p. 162, flg. 123 and pl. 3. fig. 5). It is not possible 

 to explain these features otherwise than as borrowed from the 

 Prussian brooches. 



Many of the eruciform brooches whose foot ends in a semi- 



circular plate show also in 

 another respect a remarkable 

 difference from the common 

 Scandinavian form. As the 

 bow of these brooches very 

 often has got a ^quare top- 

 plate it is reasonable to think 

 that this peculiarity has been 

 borrowed from the same model 

 as the plate of the foot, the 

 more so as the same detail is 

 very common in the Prussian 

 brooches here in question. On 

 the other hand this form of 

 the bow is nearly unknown in 

 the eruciform brooches whose 

 foot ends in an animal-head. 

 It ought also to be noted 

 that this form of the foot 

 makes its earliest appearance 

 in Scandinavia in brooches of 

 so late forms as the two speci- 

 mens given in figs. 106 and 

 107. 1 ) In both of them the 

 proportions of the head-plate 

 are the same as in the later 

 Western forms and the knobs 

 are concave from the underside. 

 From all these features we may with certainty deduce the 

 foreign origin of the semicircular plate of the foot. 



As the form has been little used and has been subject to no 



Fig. 102. 



x ) Both from Obrestad, Haa pgd. Jæderen. B. 434-1, Ab. 1885, p. 83 and 

 B. 4254, Ab. 1884, p. 86. 



