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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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of it in a very curious brooch from Western Norway, shown as 

 fig. 52, which must certainly date from the 4th cent. The upper 

 part of this brooch is explained as an imitation of certain forms 

 from the Roman territory; the form of the foot is not Roman, but 

 I am not able to make out its first origin. Examples of its later 

 development will be found in Muller: Ordn. af Danm. Olds., Jern- 

 alderen fig. 516 and in fig. 12 above. Transferred to the cruciform 

 brooches the mouldings got a more rounded character which, however, 



Fig. 52. Vi- 



did not much change the original form of the foot. which was always 

 relatively long and narrow with parallel sides. 



d. The series of brooches ivhose foot consists of a facetted stem 

 and a short animal-head is without comparison the most mimer ous 

 one in the Eastern parts of the Peninsula, as it is also among the 



p. 45. 



*) Western Norway, (locality unknown). B. 5591. B. M. Aarb. 1094, no. 6, 



