1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



are flat and carelessly executed, the details are effaced, and of the 

 animal-head are only left the eyebrows and the nose which may 

 be recognized by comparison with better and earlier forms (compare 

 figs. 92 end 96). The bow is broad, without any facets, and lower 

 and thinner than any other Norwegian varieties of this type. In 

 short we miss here all the characteristic features of these brooches 



Fig. 96. Vi- 



in Norway, though the general shape of the type is quite well 

 preserved. 



At last I have given in fig. 10 1 1 ) a nice little brooch showing 

 how in the small brooches of this sort the animal-head has some- 



!) Skeie, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B. 4226, f. Ab. 1883, p. 68, no. 47. 



