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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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ance in Norwegian graves associated with antiquities of the same 

 forms as in the find of Nydam. Thus the brooch fig. 135 was found 

 in a grave associated with the bronze mountings of a scabbard 

 shown as fig. 136 1 ) which is just of the form most characteristic 

 of the Nydam find. Specimens belonging to the prototype of the 

 cruciform brooches are, however, not numerous in our country and 

 in most cases they have not been found in association with objects 

 that could afford more precise indications regarding the absolute 

 date of the find. A 

 grave at Kvasseim on 

 Jæderen contained, 

 besides the brooch fig. 

 22 above, only a small 

 oval-shaped buckle of 

 iron. Inanothergrave 

 of the same cemetery 

 were found two broo- 

 ches figs. 137 and 

 138, 2 ) but no other 

 things which could 

 cornfirm the said dat- 

 ing of the brooches. 

 The incident is, how- 

 ever, of much interest 

 as indicating that 

 these two forms — 

 the prototype of the 

 cruciform brooches, 

 fig. 137, and the half- 

 Roman crossbow type, 

 fig. 138 — were con- 

 temporary and also 

 that they appear originally as distinctly different forms. 



From the date of the prototype as it is derived from Prof. 

 Montelius' dating of the Nydam-find, it seems very likely that the 

 early cruciform brooches belong to the late part of the 4th cent, 

 and this supposition is ascertained also by a find from Sleswick- 



Fig. 138. Vi- 



!) Moldestad, Tveid pgd. Nedenes. C. 1589—94. Eygh figs. 197 and 241 

 with text to fig. 197. 



2 ) Kvasseim, Egersund pgd. Jæderen. B. 5292. 



