1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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Here is not the place to discuss the intercourse between Scandinavia 

 and other countries during the migration-period; I only intend to 

 point out that the whole of the Eastern coast of the German Ocean 

 has tåken part in the development of the cruciform type of broo- 

 ches. 1 ) I also think it convenient here to pronounce a few words 

 ab out the absolute date of the first cruciform brooches, in spite of 

 the special chronological questions having been reserved for a later 

 part of this research, as it will be useful to know at once the 

 earliest date for our typological series and also to assure that we are 

 beginning the research at the right end. Therefore I recall only that 

 the lind of Nydam by Scandinavian archaeologists is referred to 



Fig-. 20. 



about the year 400 A. D. Thus the brooches belonging to this tind 

 must date from the time before 400, the middlé or the latter half 

 of the 4th cent., and we shall see later on that the cruciform 



x ) Tbis opinion differs in some degree from the pronouncement by dr. 

 Undset in Aarb. f. nord. Oldk. 1880 p. 132. He dates the first appearance 

 of the cruciform brooches in Norway from a small specimen (1. c. p. 95, hg. 6) 

 found in the cemetery of Braaten and Veien in Eingerike. Typologically this is 

 certainly wrong and founded only upon the presumption that all the graves in 

 this place belong to a verj' early part of the Iron-Age. 



