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Among the Eastern varieties of the cruciform brooches I have 
briefly mentioned å small number whose foot ends in å semicireular 
or å triangular plate. They were pointed out as forms that, ap- 
pearing first at a relatively late stage of development and never 
very numerous, probably are to be regarded as å combination of 
the cruciform type with details taken from other types, and the 
two forms mentioned have certainly come from different parts. But 
before entering into the special research it must be remarked that 
regarding most of these brooches it is impossible to establish åa clear 
distinetion between specimens from the Fastern and from the Western 
parts of the Peninsula, 
a fact probably ex- 
plained by the foreign 
origin of the form; 
these. brooches being in 
some respect strangers 
in Scandinavia were not 
subject to local varia- 
tions in the same degree 
as the entirely native 
forms. 
e. The semicircular 
termination of the foot 
is most commonly found 
in the Prussian broo- 
ches of the Migration 
Period. — Generally, 
though not always, the 
edge of the foot-plate 
is in these brooches shaped like a cog-wheel, å form which has 
caused the signification of brooches with star-pattern foot (,Stern- 
fussfibeln*), and very often they also have a little square plate at 
the top of the bow. A Prussian brooch showing these charaeteristic 
features is here given as fig. 104.) Such brooches are found also 
in other districts around the Eastern Baltic and in Finland,*) but, | 
1) From dr. OTTO TISCHLER: Ostpreussische Altertiimer, herausg. v. HEIN- 
RICH KEMKE, Kønigsberg 1902, taf IV, fig. 4. 
2) Dr. ÅLFRED HACKMAN: Die åltere Eisenzeit in Finland, Helsingfors 1905, 
p. 158 ss. pl. 3 and 4. 
