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The cruciform brooclies of Norway. 



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evident that the maker of this and of similar brooches has tried 

 to give fresh interest to an obsolete form by introducing a strange 

 head as a more modern element in the decoration. 1 ) The puzzling 

 appearance of this new element I think, at least in some degree, 

 explained by the brooches described in the next series. 



c. I think it convenient to treat here a very rare variety, 

 which is always combined with the form of the animal-head just 

 mentioned, and which is only found within the small district, 

 the present diocese of Bergen. The foot here consists of a broad 

 plate, projecting on both sides of the end of the bow and getting 

 farther down the same dimension as the neck of the animal-head. 

 The few brooches of this 

 sort known from Norway are 

 all late specimens, as is 

 clearly seen from the one 

 figured here, fig. 84 ; 2 ) ap- 

 parently it is not badly 

 formed, but on closer inspec- 

 tion it will be found that 

 the original proportions are 

 not a little corrupted, that 

 the plate is not sloping in 

 relation to the line of the 

 foot (which is of some weight 

 being a common feature of 

 all the Norwegian brooches 

 of this series), further that 

 the catch-plate is very short, and that the underside is very 

 concave. As the animal-head is very like the same part of the 

 brooch fig. 83, it also seems probable that the two brooches are 

 not very different of age, or at least that both of them belong to 

 a late stage of the development, though the animal-head of fig. 83 is, 

 typologically, the later of them. 



The Norwegian brooches of the form fig. 84 are tims in dif- 

 ferent respects a rather surprising feature, as one should expect 



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1 ) Such typological instances have often been observed, compare the re- 

 marks of dr-. Hildebrand in Månadsblad 1876, p. 216. 



2 ) Mo, Førde pgd. Søndfjord. B. 2828. Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 101. 



