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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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ornament close to the end of the foot, in which is set a cut garnet. 



Both these features which are never seen in the earlier brooches, 



at least not in specimens of bronze, must be regarded as an imitation 



of the contemporary large 



brooches with a square 



npper plate which are 



regularly gilt and decorated 



with animal patterns, and 



which are also often or- 



namented with garnets ; 



thus we see in the brooch 



flg. 131 fairly indicated 



the beginning assimilation 



of the cruciform brooches 



with this type. 



The brooch fig. 132 1 ). 

 also thickly gilt and pro- 

 vided with nine projecting 

 ornaments in which are 

 set glas pastes, now much 

 decayed, shows in all parts 

 a further decomposition. 

 of the type, though the 

 head with its three ter- 

 minations may be easily 

 recognized and even the 

 shape of the foot which 

 is here so utterly deprived 

 of all organic composition, 

 is understood by comparing 

 it with forms as flgs. 126 

 and 127 above. But cer- 

 tainly, very litt le is left 

 of the character properly 



belonging to the cruciform brooches. As the final stage in this 

 series I record here a specimen (fig. 133) 2 ) whose head-plate and 



Fig. 130 



1 ) Sleaford, Lincolnshire; Brit. Mus. George William Thomas: On ex- 

 cavations in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Archaeologia, 

 vol. L, p. 383 ss. pl. XXXII, fig. 1. 



2 ) Kenninghall, Norfolk. Brit, Mus. From Salin: Thierornamentik, p. 72, 

 fig. 157. 



