. The arts in early England. xxxv and on PI. xxxvn, Nos. 8, 9, 10. It willbe noticed that in these the horses head no longer appears,and in many cases the foot is spread out at the end intoa fan-like form, which is specially characteristic of fibulaefound in East Prussia but which Dr. Schetelig thinks1 maybe simply a Teutonic transformation of the rather broadfoot seen on Roman brooches of the cross-bow type, asPI. xxxvin, 2. In this connection it may be noted that insome French examples of the radiating brooch the square-ended shank of Roman derivation broadens out, thoughonly slightly, as it
. The arts in early England. xxxv and on PI. xxxvn, Nos. 8, 9, 10. It willbe noticed that in these the horses head no longer appears,and in many cases the foot is spread out at the end intoa fan-like form, which is specially characteristic of fibulaefound in East Prussia but which Dr. Schetelig thinks1 maybe simply a Teutonic transformation of the rather broadfoot seen on Roman brooches of the cross-bow type, asPI. xxxvin, 2. In this connection it may be noted that insome French examples of the radiating brooch the square-ended shank of Roman derivation broadens out, thoughonly slightly, as it descends. These pieces are instructiveas showing that besides development in a main line througha long series of comparatively slight typological changesthere might exist as it were short cuts by which a greatextent of ground was covered at a single leap. The classof small brooches now under consideration, for which the1 Cruciform Brooches of Norway, p. 91. XLII lacing p. 265 FORMS DERIVED FROM CRUCIFORM FIBULAE ytT 5 i •. 4 is slightly below natural , j, «/v Continental SMALL LONG BROOCHES 265 name small long brooches may be found suitable, is speciallycharacteristic of England, but the origin of them seems tobe sought in Schleswig, where they occur in the cemeteryof Borgstedt the date of which is rather earlier than that ofthe Teutonic settlement in England. PI. xlii, 2, 3, are twoSchleswig specimens, and references have just been givento the illustrations of some English ones. The trefoil headedfibula, a specially English form represented as we have seenin all parts of our country, is considered by Dr. Salinl to be de-rived from a three-knobbed cruciform brooch by the summaryprocess of flattening out the knobs, and in like manner theSchleswig specimens, PL xlii, 2, 3, may have come froma cruciform fibula with—what occurs very exceptionally—square knobs. On the other hand, an example like thatfrom near Blaby, Leicestershire, in the Museum at Leicester,PL xli, 5,
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