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may therefore be regarded as nearly , contemporary with the 

 mountmgs mentioned above and this brooch was consequently 

 used at the same time as the brooch fig. 143. This conclusion 

 which seems at first rather sur/prising, as the silver brooch presents 

 in all its parts a much more advanced stage of development than 

 the brooch from Ringerike, is confirmed by an examination of the 

 two other brooches found in the same grave (figs. 145 and 147). 

 The larger of them, which is in itself of great typological interest, 

 is best classified, as to type, with the brooch from Ringerike (fig. 



143) while the smaller 

 specimen (fig. 147) pre- 

 sents an intermediate stage 

 between that brooch and 

 the silver brooch. It is 

 tli en certain that these 

 very different varieties of 

 the type have been used 

 at the same time and have 

 sometimes been worn even 

 by the same person, but 

 from this single fact we 

 are not allowed to con- 

 clude that these different 

 brooches were made at 

 the same time. It is more 

 likely that people ceased 

 to make brooches of the 

 older varieties when new 

 forms had come into use, 

 and the instances in which 

 different stages of the 

 development are represented in one grave, viz. in the possession 

 of one person, only prove that these different stages are not separated 

 by so long an interval of time that the earlier forms had disap- 

 peared before the new ones were introduced. From the finds cited 

 here, it is therefore clear that the typological change, which con- 

 sists of casting the side-knobs in one piece with the brooch, as has 

 been done in the case of the silver brooch fig. 146, took place in 

 Norway at a time not much later than the date of the early broo- 

 ches, figs. 143 and 145, probably during the former half of the 



Fig-. 145. 



