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Another variety with knobs fixed only upon the axis of the 
spring-eoil has played no important part in the Western and Nor- 
thern countries. In Scandinavia it is represented by some small 
and simple specimens contemporary with the early cruciform broo- 
ches (fig. 15).') They seem to disappear before the end of the 5th 
cent.; at all events they were not preserved as long as the first 
mentioned variety. I have seen one brooch only which may be 
counted as a later development of this type (fig. 16),*) though the 
form of the foot of this brooch certainly has been transferred from 
a Prussian form. It is an interesting fact that influences from that 
country can be tra- 
ced as far as Western 
Norway, a fact which 
is of importance re- 
specting some points 
of the following in- 
vestigation. 
At last we have 
to. study a third 
variety with three 
knobs, placed in 
about the same man- 
ner as in the Roman 
brooches, or with 
one knob only, pla- 
ced at the top of the 
bow.. Ås å whole, 
this form too has 
been derived from 
Eie øl e N the same Teutonic 
origin as the others 
just mentioned; but the top-knob produces some difference regard- 
ing the arrangement of the hinge and the spring-coil. The knob 
is not -placed directly upon the bow but separated from it by the 
small perpendicular plate, in the centre of which is fastened the 
1) Kvasseim, Egersund pgd. Jæderen. B. 5275. 
*) Indre Bø, Stryns pgd. Nordfjord. B. 4842. Ab. 1891, p. 149, på II 
fig. 7. 
