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different from objects of the same kiiid known from the middle of 

 the 4th cent. They are decorated in a peculiar style with punched 

 and engraved ornaments and partially inlaid with niello. This sort 

 of silver mountings is best known from the recent and smaller find 

 of Nydam (not to be confounded with the larger deposit at the 

 same locality which is referred to above). This find is by mr. Hans 

 Kjæe attributed to the beginning of the 6th cent. 1 ) but according 



Piff. 143 



to the Swedish system it should be not a little earlier, and by 

 comparing these mountings with the large silver-plated brooches — 

 whose development is mentioned in the following — I am inclined 

 to attribute the recent find of Nydam to about the middle of the 



*) Hans Kjær in Nordiske Fortidsminder I, p. 181, pl. XXIX and XXX. 



