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Haakon Schetelig. 



[No. 8 



Up to this point I have been describing the cruciform brooches 

 as they appear in all the countries where thev are found, wilhout 

 observing any important difference between specimens found even 

 m great distance from each other. A brooch from Hannover for 

 mstance (fig. 34) >) is very like the one shown as fig. 25 above which 

 is found in Nordhordland in Western Norway; other specimens exactly 

 of the same form have been found in Funen and Jutland in Den- 

 mark. It is evident that the case still is the same as mentioned 



Piff. 31 



Fiff. 32. 



in connexion with the question about the original home of the 

 cruciform brooches. Also the early cruciform brooches have been 



oltrl7r oi \°T, the whole Eastern coast 0f the G *™* 



Ocean. But during the following stages of development we shall soon 



- > Mid.urn, Kr. Lehe; Hannover Mus. 5530. Fron,: Phot. Album der pra- 

 hist. Ausstellung zn Berlin. Sect. V, taf. 9, no. 206. 



