1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norwav. 



51 



To show the form here in question, I have given as fig. 65 x ) 

 a little brooeh where the foot seems to represent the more original 

 shape of this form, and as fig. 66 ■) a brooeh representing nearly 

 the most advaneecl degeneration of form possible. In the latter 

 figure the bow is provided with a little top-plate, a detail which is 

 here rarer than in the variety treated above. 



Some of the Swedish specimens with the foot eonsisting of a 

 triangular plate are in many points different from all I have seen 

 in Norway, as also in other cases several more isolated varieties 

 found in Sweden seem to indicate an independent development in 



Fig. 65. Vi- 



Fig. 66. Vi- 



that country; but the material is here too scarce to admit of any 

 precise conclusions. 



I will not elose the description of the cruciform brooches in 

 the Eastern territory before having mentioned a very remarkable 

 tind of three such brooches at Friedefeld in Pommerania (figs. 67— 

 69) 3 ), the forms of which are most closely related to some Swedish 



v ) Giskegjerde, Borgund pgd. Søndmør. B. 720. Loeange: N. Olds. i B. 

 M., p. 108. 



2 ) Nordre Fevang, Sandeherred pgd. Larvik. C. 6935. Ab. 1874, p. 134. 



3 ) Dr. H. Schumann: Skeletgrab aus der Volkerwanderungszeit aus Friede- 

 feld, in NTachrichten fiber deutsclie Altertumsfunde, 1898, p. 93, figs. 1—4. 



