10 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
type as the following four figures (figs. 3—6).*) 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 å 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 
cireumstance that they are always very rare*), 
while the genuine Teutonic type, our eruci- 
form brooch, is found in great numbers. As 
is seen from the figures, 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-ceoil, the Romans generally preferring 
for this purpose å 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 tigs. 4 and 6 has 
certainly å 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 taken as å 
hint for the fixing of the date of that brooeh. 
'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 å bronze-vessel 
Bio 
1) Fig. 8: Stockholm Museum, no. 5191, 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: RYGH, 
fig. 242; — fig. 6: Tveiten, Mo pgd. Telemarken, C. 8434, Ab. 1877, fig. 16. 
2) Compare ÅLMGREN, Il. c. p. 88, and 198. He makes in his lists no 
difference between the Roman brooches of this sort and the Teutonic imitations. 
