1906] The ceruciform brooches of Norway. 21 
marked by especially thick and heavy forms and by å preference 
for sharp facets of the bow, were imported to Scandinavia during 
the late 4th cent. and here they produced some barbarian imitations, 
but they also influenceed in å high degree the early cruciform 
brooehes, chiefly concerning the shape of the bow. This part of 
the Teutonic brooches being, originally flat as a ribbon now, commonly 
gets åa form more or less strongly recalling the Roman facetting, 
though we find very few cruciform brooches the facets of which 
are made exactly in the Roman fashion. The Roman brooches in 
question being contemporary with the very first development of 
the cruciform type, we shall expect to find this influence working 
already upon the prototype of the eruciform brooches. That so 
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