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THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LEAF-SHAPED SWORDS 93
called Selve, at the depth of about one metre. It is, or was, in the Museum at Cividale.^
Another, very unlike the others in decoration, and varying somewhat in outline, was
found in the neighbourhood of Treviso, north of Venice, and is now in the Treviso
Museum.*
Lastly we have one found in a grave somewhere in Schleswig-Holstein. Splieth,
who has recorded it, does not state exactly where it was found, nor in what collection
it was deposited at the time he was writing. ^ He compares it with the second
Hungarian specimen, but in reality it more closely resembles that in the Museum at
Cividale.
All these specimens, except that from Treviso, resemble one another so closely
that we may well beUeve that they were contemporary, and the products of the same
region ; the type must have continued in use for some little time in the FriuU, where
it developed local variants Uke the Treviso specimen.
Type B is rare in Hungary, or at any rate very few specimens occur in the museums
of that country. So far I have been able to find record of only one, and this has been
much damaged. It was found in 1884 in a hoard at Orezi, in the county of Somogy.*
A somewhat unusual form of this type is in the Vienna museum, but its provenance seems
unknown. In Italy one has been found at Ascoli Piceno,' south of Ancona, and Naue
figures another from an unknown site. He mentions a third, in his own collection,
which is said to have come from Calabria, but as he does not figure it one cannot be certain
that this belongs to Type B.^ I can find no instances of the occurrence of this type in
France, and though three specimens have been found in Britain which bear a
superficial resemblance to it, a more careful inspection convinces me that they are
local variants of a later type, perhaps C or D. This type does not appear to occur in
southern Germany, but the swords of this region have not yet been catalogued with
thoroughness. It has been found, however, in the Baltic region, and specimens have
been recorded from Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia.^ A type closely
resembling this occurs in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, but most of the specimens
3 B.P. xxxvi. (1912) 22, fig. c.p. 33.
4 Montelius (1895-1904) I.B. PI. 34.
5 Splieth (1900) 12, PI. i. 9b.
' Hampel (1886) PI. cxvii. 21.
7 Montelius (1895-1904) II. ii. B. PI. 131.
8 Naue (1903) 17 fn. 3, PI. viii. i.
9 Naue (1903) ix. 8 ; x. 4 ; xi. 2.