1906] 



The cruciform brooclies of Norway. 



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country, and it is not impossible, I think, that somewhat similar 

 connexions may have tåken place during the prehistoric periods. 1 ) 



å. The brooclies with the foot consisting of a square plate 

 separating the animal-head from the end of the bow are in Western 

 Norway more numerous tlian all other varieties and certainly the 

 most characteristic form of this district. As we have already seen, 

 it is very rare in the Eastern parts of the Peninsula, and in Den- 

 mark it is known only from a few late specimens; in England it 

 is rather common, especially 

 among the later brooclies. 

 But the real home of this 

 form is the West coast of 

 Norway, where it is found 

 in all stages of development 

 and partly in excellent spe- 

 cimens. As this variety in 

 all probability did not appear 

 till after the development 

 had tåken a separate direc- 

 tion in the different parts 

 of the Northern district, we 

 find here the explanation 

 why it has been chiefly con- 

 fined to a smaller district 

 than most of the others. The 

 very earliest specimen I have 

 seen of this sort, is at all 

 events the brooch given here 

 as fig. 86, 2 ) where the plate 

 is only a little broader than 



the bow, with its edges sharpened so as to be inserted into small 

 grooves in the knobs ; it is thus an early specimen of the Norwegian 

 development, but the proportions and the form as a whole already 



!) From my observations respecting this variety I shoukl be tempted to 

 suggest that it was brought from Jutland to the distvicts in Western Norway 

 through immigration of a Jutish tribe. The supposed immigration must then have 

 tåken place at the beginning of the 6th cent. The material seems, however, 

 not yet sufficient to make reliable conclusions of this sort. 



2 ) Reve. Klep pgd., Jæderen. Stavanger Museum, no. 2830. 



