1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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of use about the end of that time and, consequently, very few 

 antiquities are known in Norway from the following two centuries. 

 It is possible that this change in the rites has tåken place at a 

 somewhat earlier time in 

 the Eastern parts of the 

 country than along the West 

 coast, and the scarce appea- 

 rance of the latest cruci- 

 form brooches in the East- 

 ern district compared with 

 Western Norway could then 

 with some reason be ex- 

 plained by the circumstance 

 that the Eastern graves, at 

 the time when the latest 

 varieties of the cruciform 

 brooches had come into use, 

 were no more so rich in 

 grave-goods as before. I 

 think. however, that a doser 

 inspection of the material 

 will show that the pre- 

 sumed difference of time 

 respecting the change in 

 the funeral rites, if any, is 

 not great enough to allow 

 •of a conclusion of this sort. 

 The Western parts of 

 Norway have in any case 

 produced a richer develop- 

 ment of the latest forms of 

 the cruciform brooches, and 

 the production of them has 

 perhaps here lasted longer 

 than in the East, which 

 would well correspond with 

 the fact that England, the 



most western district of the Teutonic world, has produced line 

 and remarkable varieties of the type later than any found in the 

 Scandinavian Peninsula. 



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