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different from objects of the same kind known from the middle of 
the 4th cent. They are decorated in å peculiar style with punched 
and engraved ornaments and partially inlaid with niello. This sort 
of silver mountings is best known from the recent and smaller find 
of Nydam (not to be confounded with the larger deposit at the 
same locality which is referred to above). This find is by mr. Hans 
Ksær attributed to the beginning of the 6th cent.*) but according 
Fig. 143. Pine 
to the Swedish system it should be not a little earlier, and by 
comparing these mountings with the large silver-plated brooches — 
whose development is mentioned in the following — I am inelined 
to attribute the recent find of Nydam to about the middle of the 
1) Hans KJÆr in Nordiske Fortidsminder I, p. 181, pl. XXIX and XXX. 
