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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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in the animal-head to be spoken of below, and I am inclined to 

 think that the English workman when induced to form a brooch 

 in this peculiar manner different from all the eurrent forms of his 

 own country, must have seen a somewhat similar brooch of Nor- 

 wegian workmanship. It is of no little importance to state the 

 earliest trace of connexion between Norwegian and English forms 

 of the Migration-Period and I therefore anteeipate here the 

 chronological fixation of the corresponding Norwegian forms which 

 is treated in the following; they are attributed to the latter 

 half of the 5th cent. Probably it is 

 contemporary with the English brooches 

 just dealt with aud shown in the flgs. 

 120 and 121. 1 ) 



Respecting the Kentish brooch I 

 draw attention to the small scrolls 

 forming the nose of the animal-head; 

 they are the most primitive form and 

 the earliest appearance of this detail 

 so common in the later cruciform broo- 

 ches of England, and are also inter- 

 esting as another link of connexion 

 with the Danish forms. In Denmark, 

 however, this detail is by far less 

 commonly used than in England and 

 it is not observed in the cruciform 

 brooches there, but it is at all events 

 not unknown among the ornamental 

 forms of Denmark 2 ) while it is quite 

 unknown in Norway and Sweden. I 

 am not able to make out whether this 

 form has come from Denmark to Eng- 

 land or vice versa and for my present purpose it is sufficient to 

 point it out as a trace of the close connexion existing between the 

 forms in England and those in Denmark at that time. 



To indicate the latest stage of development of what might be 



Fia-. 124. i 



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J ) The Kentish brooch is found in association with another brooch provided 

 with five projections from the semicircular head-plate (Salin: Thierornamentik, 

 p. 35, fig-. 79) a fact which agrees well with the date given here. 



2 ) Cf. Muller: Jernalderen fig. 509. Salin: Thierornamentik, p. 189, 

 fiff. 459. 



