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the earlier brooches in relief (for instance Saturn: Thierornamentik, 
P- 61, fig. 30) while the buttons of the other, on the contrary, are 
provided with very high edgings and 
ornamented with an animal-motive. 
From these features it 18 not too 
daring to claim a difference of time 
between the two clasps, the last men- 
tioned certainly being the younger of 
1. them and belonging to å time after 
the end of the 5th cent. The date 
of the grave, which can naturally not be earlier than the date of 
any of the antiquities found in it, may thus be fixed towards the 
Pio Fig. 160. 1. 
middle of the 6th cent.') and the eruciform brooch found here is 
probably not earlier than the silver brooch fig. 159 and not later 
1) At another occasion I have assigned this grave to the middle of the 
6t cent. which is probably rather too late. Ab. 1904, p. 79. 
