^{page 299 note *} Mr. Romilly Allen, F.S.A., has some remarks on the evolution of these brooches in the Illustrated Archæologist, i. 162, and illustrates two Irish scnlptures of the tenth century, on which brooches of this kind are seen in use.

^{page 300 note *} Journal nf the Royal Historical and Archœological Association of Ireland, 3rd series, i. 164.

page 300 note † Several are illustrated in a paper by Mr. Fairholt in the Gloucester volume of the British Archæological Association (1846), p. 86, pl. v. ; also in Jewitt's Reliquary, v. 65.

page 300 note ‡ Scotland in Early Christian Times (2nd series), 34.

^{page 301 note *} Die Thier-ornamentik im Norden, 91, 109, etc.

page 301 note † The Industrial Arts of Scandinavia, 85.

page 301 note ‡ Jewitt, Grave-mounds and their Contents, fig. 487.

^{page 302 note *} Both are figured by Dr. Anderson, op. cit. 23, 24.

^{page 303 note *} O. Rygb, Norske Oldsager, fig. 697, a and b.

^{page 304 note *} Archaeologia, xxxiv. pl. xxxviii. p. 446.