98 Haakon Schetelig. de [No å 
being given to the traces of connexion between the Engl PE 
the Scandinavian varieties. 
Brooches representative of the origin and the first part of the 
development of the type seem to be very rare in England. A 
specimen from Dorchester, now in The Ashmolean Museum,') may 
Fig. 117. 2: 
be considered as å variety of the prototype of the erueiform broo- 
ehes, showing, ee in the building of the head some influence 
from the contemporary half-Roman forms known from Scandinavia, 
1) BERNHARD SALIN: Nåora tidiga former af vermanska fornsaker från 
England. Månadsblad, 1894, p. 24, fig. 1. 
