1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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5th cent, This supposition is confirmed by the ornamentation of the 

 silver brooch fig. 146, which has beem in another way, attributed 



to the same time. 



Asa basis for the further research it is necessary briefly to sketch 

 the history and the dates of another sort of brooch, namely the 

 large one with a square head-plate and a rhomboidal foot, made at 

 first of thin silver plate and later on east of silver — rarely. of 



Fig. 146. Vi 



bronze — and then ornamented with relief patterns. To make the 

 comparison more easy I have in the following nve illustrations shown 

 the principal stages of the development of this form (figs. 148— 

 152). ') During the early stages, when the brooches were made of 



x ) Fig. 148: From Salin : Thierornamentik, fig. 105, Sjælland, Demnark. 

 — Fig. 149: ib. 489, Jutland. -- Fig. 150: ib. fig. 128, Skaane, Sweden.^— 

 Fig. 151: Ab. 1900, p. 298, fig. 4. Nordheim, Hedrum pgd. Larvik. — Fig. 152: 

 Rygh fig. 257. Trygsland, Bjelland pgd. Mandal. 



