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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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date than that of the cruciform brooches. In Norway it has been 

 found in association with cruciform brooches of very late forms. 1 ) 

 The development of this type is, generally speaking, the same 

 in all districts, it being chiefly characterised by the disappearing of 

 the incisions in the heacl-plate which thus gets a simple square 

 form. An instructive clescription of this development is given by 

 dr. Salin: Thierornamentik, p. 73 — 74. Especially England is 

 very rich in varying forms belonging to this type, of which some 

 later specimens have certainly been intluenced by the cruciform 

 brooches; in some instances it is even difflcult to tell whether a 

 brooch is to be classifled as belonging to the one or to the other 

 of the two types. But upon 

 the whole it is, perhaps, most 

 striking to see how little con- 

 nexion there has existed be- 

 tween this form and the cruci- 

 form brooches, a fact also 

 pointing towards the different 

 origin of the two forms. 



113. 



Before finishing the gen- 

 eral typological description of 

 the cruciform brooches in 

 Scandinavia I think it inter- 

 esting to try an analysis of a 

 more irregular form, as seen 

 in the brooch, fig. 114. 2 ) It 

 is found in Sogn, and we see 

 both from its form and dimensions, that it must be a product of 

 Western Norway. 



Being east very concave from the underside it must belong to 

 a late stage of the development, and the shape of the head-plate 

 and the knobs ranges it among the late specimens of the variety 

 represented by figs. 86—100. The bow, however, has quite another 

 appearance than the bow of these brooches; it is much longer than 

 usually seen in West-Norwegian brooches of that time, the facetting 



J ) See figs. 159—162 and figs. 163—167. 



2 ) Hove, Vik pgd. Sogn. B. 560. Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 96. 

 Rygh fig. 256. 



