. Bergens Museums aarbog. Science. 86 Haakon Schetelig;. [No. 8 only reminiscence of the original form, (Montelius: Från jern- åldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, compare Hackman: Die altere Eisenzeit in Finland, I, p. 162, flg. 123 and pl. 3. fig. 5). It is not possible to explain these features otherwise than as borrowed from the Prussian brooches. Many of the eruciform brooches whose foot ends in a semi- circular plate show also in another respect a remarkable difference from the common Scandinavian form. As the bow of these brooches very often has got a ^quare top- plate it is reasonable to think that
. Bergens Museums aarbog. Science. 86 Haakon Schetelig;. [No. 8 only reminiscence of the original form, (Montelius: Från jern- åldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, compare Hackman: Die altere Eisenzeit in Finland, I, p. 162, flg. 123 and pl. 3. fig. 5). It is not possible to explain these features otherwise than as borrowed from the Prussian brooches. Many of the eruciform brooches whose foot ends in a semi- circular plate show also in another respect a remarkable difference from the common Scandinavian form. As the bow of these brooches very often has got a ^quare 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 ) In both of them the proportions of the head-plate are the same as in the later Western forms and the knobs are concave from the underside. From all these features we may with certainty deduce the foreign origin of the semicircular plate of the foot. As the form has been little used and has been subject to no. Fig. 102. x) Both from Obrestad, Haa pgd. Jæderen. B. 434-1, Ab. 1885, p. 83 and B. 4254, Ab. 1884, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergens Museum. Bergen : [The Museum]
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