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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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who has carefully described the find, when he thinks the brooches 

 from Friedefeld closely allied to the forms known from Sleswick 

 and Holstein. As the brooches found in the last mentioned district 

 have all been of earlier forms and as the intermediate stage, which 

 could connect them with the form known from Friedefeld, is yet 

 missing in these districts I think it at present the most reasonable 

 explanation to suppose that they have in Pommerania been produced 

 by imitation of Swedish forms, though I will not deny the possibility 

 that this opinion may be contradicted by fnture finds. 



General transformations of the form during the development in 

 Eastem Norway. On several places in the previous description of 



Fiff. 70. 



Fiff. 71. 



the special varieties of the type I have also occasionally made some 

 remarks up on the general transformation which equally in all the 

 parallel varieties indicates the advancement of the development. 

 Though these features are commonly well known and moreover can 

 be extracted from the tigures above, I think it practical to make 

 here some further remarks upon them. 



The technical proceeding in the making of the brooches is 

 always the same. They are nearly without exception of bronze — 

 a few specimens are of silver; but hitherto no cruciform brooch is 



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