98 



Haakon Schetelig'. 



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being given to the traces of connexion between the English and 

 the Scandinavian varieties. 



Brooches representative of the origin and the first part of the 

 development of the type seem to be very rare in England. A 

 specimen from Dorehester, now in The Ashmolean Museum, 1 ) may 



1 



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Fig. 116. Vi- 



Fig. 117. '/i- 



Fig. 118. Vi- 



be considered as a variety of the prototype of the cruciform broo- 

 ches, showing, however, in the building of the head some influence 

 from the contemporary half-Roman forms known from Scandinavia, 



x ) Bernhard Salin : Några tidiga former af germanska fornsaker från 

 England. Månadsblad, 1894, p. 24, fig. 1. 



