1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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of the same form as Rygh flg-. 358. The youngest specimen of 

 this sort which I have seen, is given as flg. 7; 1 ) it is said to have 

 been found in a grave, containing besides the brooch some weapons 

 which are not likely to be older than the 6th cent. The brooch 

 itself indicates by its form, especially by the bow which is broad 

 and concave from the underside, a later stage of development. 

 The other parts show very little variation from the original type, 

 an evident proof that it has not been this form, which produced 

 the rich development of the cruciform brooches of the 5th and 6th 

 cent. in Scandinavia. We must, however, before leaving it, note 

 another form, produced by a slight variation of the Roman type 

 and represented here by the specimens rigs. 8 

 and 9. 2 ) The only ditference from the form 

 described above is found in the piece separat- 

 ing the upper knob from the end of the bow. 

 Though this detail is found in no Roman 

 brooch, the connexion with those mentioned 

 above is not to be mistaken; it has perhaps 

 come up as a form of compromise, the Teutonic 

 brooches of the same family always having the 

 knob placed a little above the end of the bow, 

 though arranged in another way than the variety 

 treated here. 3 ) That this one is closely con- 

 nected with the Roman type is, moreover, brought 

 to evidence by some of them having, instead 

 of a spring-coil after the common Teutonic 

 fashion, a hinge just of the same arrangement 

 as the contemporary brooches from the Roman 

 provinces. We tind this peculiarity in the 

 specimen fig. 10 4 ), — probably from the time about 400 — showing 

 not only the Roman arrangement of the hinge but also an imitation 

 of the solid beam which, in the Roman forms, took the place of 

 the spring-coil of the Teutonic brooches. The other parts of this 



Fiff. 7. 



1 ) Tuneim, Lye pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum, no. 111 — 117. 



2 ) Fig. 8 : Gjerløv, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. Tønsberg Museum, no. 40. — 

 Fig. 9 : Øvstebø, Vikedal pgd. Eyfylke. Stavanger Museum, no. 2261, Stav. mus. 

 aarsb. 1900, p. 71. 



3 ) For the history of this detail compare also Mestorf : Altertumer, fig. 581. 



4 ) Litleland, Haaland pgd. Jæderen, Stavanger Museum, no. 2595. Stav. 

 mus. aarsb. 1903. p. 98. 



