1906] 



The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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They are both of silver, and the geometrical relief pattern of the 

 one corresponds well ehronologically with the stamp ed and niello 

 ornaments of the other, 

 which is referred by 

 Pro f. Montelius to the 

 beginning of his 6th 

 period of the Iron-Age, 

 viz. the first part of the 

 5th cent. A. D. Typo- 

 logically, the cruciform 

 brooch shows a stage of 

 transition between the 

 form which has the side- 

 knobs fixed upon the 

 axis of the spring-coil 

 and the form which has 

 the knobs east in one 

 piece with the brooch; 

 upon the three free sides 

 of the plate are seen 

 projections which were 

 passed through the holes 

 in the middle of the 

 knobs. When dealing 

 with the brooch fig. 146, 

 I briefly raentioned that 

 the transition from sepa- 

 rate knobs, fixed upon 

 the axis of the spring- 

 coil, to knobs east in 

 one piece with the 

 brooch, had probably 

 tåken place in Norway 

 during the first half 

 of the 5th cent. and as 

 the find before us must, 

 in itself, be referred to 



the same time these two datings will mutually confirm each other. 

 From another grave in Jarlsberg we possess the two brooches. 



