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only reminiscence of the original form, (Monterius: Från jern- 
åldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, compare Hackman: Die åltere Eisenzeit in 
Finland, I, p. 162, flg. .123 and pl. 3, fig: 5). børn 
to explain these features otherwise than as borrowed from the 
Prussian brooches. k 
Many of the eruciform brooches whose foot ends in å semi- 
eircular plate show also in 
another respect å remarkable 
difference from the common 
Scandinavian form. As the 
bow of these brooches very 
often has got a square top- 
plate it is reasonable to think 
that this peculiarity has been 
borrowed from the same model 
as the plate of the foot, the 
more so as the same detail is 
very common in the Prussian 
brooches here in question. On 
the other hand this form of 
the bow is nearly unknown in 
the eruciform brooches whose 
foot ends in an animal-head. 
It ought also to be noted 
that this form of the foot 
makes its earliest appearance 
in Scandinavia in brooches of 
so late forms as the two speci- 
mens given in figs. 106 and 
107.1) In both of themmibe 
proportions of the head-plate 
are the same as in the later 
oil UDE Western forms and the knobs 
are concave from the underside. 
From all these features we may with certainty deduce the 
foreign origin of the semicireular plate of the foot. 1 
As the form has been little used and has been subject to no 
1) Both from Obrestad, Haa ped. Jæderen. B. 4344, Ab. 1885, p. 88 and 
B. 4254, Ab. 1884, p. 86. 
