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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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they are very rare in Scandinavia ; in Gland only some few speci- 

 mens are found. 1 ) A similar termination of the foot is nnknown 

 in brooches from the Western parts of the Teutonic countries with 

 the one exception of some of the cruciform brooches in the Scan- 

 dinavian Peninsula. It is then very likely that this form, when 

 appearing i n Scandinavia, has been borrowed from the Prussian 

 brooches. 



This conclusion is confirmed by some peculiarities observed in 

 the Scandinavian brooches of this sort. The edge of the semi- 

 circular plate is sometimes cogged in a way much resembling the 



Fig. 100. V]- 



Fig. 101 



shape of the real star-pattern foot (flg. 105, 2 ) flg. 6-1, and Ab. 1878 

 fig. 3); in other cases the splits in the edges have been replaced 

 by a series of holes placed at some distance from the edge, while 

 small incisions in the surface still indicate the places of the former 

 splits (see Ab. 1878, fig. 3); sometimes the holes are left as the 



*) The brooches from Ølånd are enumerated by dr. Hackman 1. c. p. 161. 

 foot-note 2. Besides those mentioned there dr. Almgren has kindly informed 

 me about two instances of such brooches in Ølånd, both from the parish of 

 Gårby (Kalmar Mnsenm no. 2165 and Goteborgs Museum no. 1911). An irrégular 

 brooch, though with foot-plate of the sort treated here, is figured by Salin: 

 Thierornamentik fig. 457; it, is also found. in Ølånd. 



2 ) Vestly, Lye pgd. Jæderen. B. 2532. Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 56. 



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