134 



Haakon Schetelig-. 



[No. 8 



the eai 

 p. 61, 



Fia-. 15 



of the 

 any of 



lier brooches in relief (for instance Salin: Thierornamentik, 



fig'. 30) while the buttens of the other, on the contrary, are 



provided with very high edgings and 



ornamented with an animal-motive. 



From these features it is not too 



daring to claim a difference of time 



between the two clasps, the last men- 



tioned certainly being the younger of 



them and belonging to a time after 



the end of the 5th cent. The date 



grave, which can naturally not be earlier than the date of 



the antiquities found in it, may thus be fixed towards the 



Fio-. 15* 



Vi- 



Fig. 159. 7, 



Fiff. 160. Vi- 



middle of the 6th cent. 1 ) and the cruciform brooch found here is 

 probably not earlier than the silver brooch fig. 159 and not later 



a ) At another occasion I have assigned this grave to the middle of the 

 6th cent. which is prohably rather too late. Ab. 1904, p. 79. 



