. The arts in early England. /, 2, J, 7, are Continental THE CRUCIFORM FIBULA 259 visible in the form of an ornamental collar round the bottomof the bow where it runs off into the foot, reminiscent of thecoil which attaches the returned end of the foot to thebow. This is seen for instance in the fibulae from Sackrau,PI. xxxviii, 3 to 5. In the primitive examples, like PI. xl, i,there is an open space between the upper line of the foot andthe lower part of it where it has been turned back, and tracesof this opening remain in later fibulae where most of it hasbeen closed up. This construction of
. The arts in early England. /, 2, J, 7, are Continental THE CRUCIFORM FIBULA 259 visible in the form of an ornamental collar round the bottomof the bow where it runs off into the foot, reminiscent of thecoil which attaches the returned end of the foot to thebow. This is seen for instance in the fibulae from Sackrau,PI. xxxviii, 3 to 5. In the primitive examples, like PI. xl, i,there is an open space between the upper line of the foot andthe lower part of it where it has been turned back, and tracesof this opening remain in later fibulae where most of it hasbeen closed up. This construction of the foot might of course co-exist withany kind of formation of the head, but as a matter of fact inIV and early V a kind of fibula was in use over part of the. Fig. 12.—Fibula from Borgstedt, Schleswig. Germanic area that combined this arrangement with a slenderbody and narrow head, and this kind of brooch was well inevidence in Schleswig-Holstein and on the Lower Elbe in theperiod before the migrations from those regions to is the prevailing theory that it was from fibulae of this kind,which seem to have been carried up to this region fromsouthern Russia, rather than from the Roman cross-bow type,that the cruciform fibula was evolved. The fact that earlycruciform fibulae are narrow at the head while the Roman onesrun pronouncedly to width is in favour of the prevailing 12 is a sketch of a fibula of this kind from Borgstedt inSchleswig,1 where will be seen the c returned foot, and a narrowbow of full curve ending at the top with a knob, below which 1 Mestorf, Vorgeschkhtliche Alterthumer aus Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg,1885, No. 584. 260 FORMS OF THE FIBULA originally worked the pin hinged with the usual spiral coil th
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