1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norwav. 



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however, certainly made here, as is clearly seen by comparing the 

 details of figs. 43 — 46 with Western brooches of the same discription 

 (flgs. 88 — 102). I call special attention to the frequent appearance, 

 in brooches from the Eastern parts of the Peninsula, of an orna- 

 mentation of the foot-plate, consisting of parallel lines and incisions 

 in the edges, which is never observed in such brooches from Western 

 Norway. In the four brooches (figs. 43—46) is seen a marked 

 progress respecting the dimensions of the foot-plate, indicating the 

 origin and development of this detail, as the plate is at first as 



Fio-. 43. i; 



Pio-. 44 



broacl as the bow only, and later on extends on both sides of it. 

 But it is evident that already the first of the brooches illustrated 

 (fig. 43) r ) must belong to a late stage of development, the knobs 

 having a flat underside, the catch-plate of the pin being very short, 

 reaching only from the end of the bow to the neck, and the head- 



*) From Montelius, Svenska Fornsaker, fig. 327. 



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