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seen it in no English and only in one Danish specimen.*) It is, 
however, most marked in the late forms from Western Norway. 
Where aå similar form of the bow appears in the large brooches 
with relief ornaments from a later part of the migration period, I 
think it transferred here from the eruciform brooches, å eireumstance 
not without interest as it probably proves that such large brooches 
have been made within the Peninsula. 
Å rarer variety of the bow has been 
shown already in fig. 41 above, having a 
rhomboidal figure drawn with four lines upon 
the surface of the bow. This form is found 
only in the eruciform brooches and only 
in Norway and Sweden. It is often com- 
bined with the form of the bow just men- 
tioned (as in fig. 45), though it is not 
necessarily connected with it. I am not 
able to make out the origin and gradual 
transformation of it, because it is rather 
rare in the early stages of the develop- 
ment. 
The third variety — of which we 
have a specimen in fig. 46 — does not, 
in my opinion, originally belong to the 
eruciform brooches. This kind of mould- 
ing of the bow, being regularly found in 
the large, silver-plated brovches?), which 
are contemporary with the middle eruci- 
form brooches, and being certainly a fea- 
ture properly belonging to that form, must 
from here have been transferred to some 
eruciform brooches. It is sometimes com- - 
bined with the two previously treated 
varieties. In Norway it is not very rare, 
in Denmark I have seen it only in å few instances, and it seems 
to be unknown in England. 
1) The Danish specimen is found in Jutland (Copenhagen Museum), it is 
of silver and provided with ornaments cast in relief. A fragment of å brooch 
in the Copenhagen Museum (nr. 8414) showing a marked development of this 
form of the bow, has probably come from Norway. | 
*) Compare MöLLER: Jernalderen, fig. 264 and fir. 148 below. 
