136 



Haakon Schetelig. 



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the clasp; I am inclined to suggest that it must be of about the 

 year 500 A. D. 



The association of these antiquities with the small brooch fig. 

 161, is of great interest, affording help to date the origin of that 

 form, but as I do not consider it to belong to the cruciform type 

 I think this is not the place to go deeper into the question. 



I know of no other lind presenting an association of early 

 brooches in relief with cruciform brooches, but one find more ought 

 to be mentioned in this connexion, as in some degree contributing 

 to the solution of these questions. A remarkable series of broo- 

 ches from one grave in 

 Lister is illustrated in 

 the following live figures 

 (163— 167). 1 ) The grave 

 contained eight brooches 

 besides those illu- 

 strated two specimens of 

 exactly the same form 

 as fig. 166 and a frag- 

 ment insufficient for clas- 

 sification — of which six 

 belong to the cruciform 

 type, probably the great- 

 est number of this type 

 known to have been 

 found in one grave, and 

 as the grave was exa- 

 mined by an expert, Mr. 

 A. Salvesen, no doubt 

 exists as to the correct- 

 ness of the report. One 

 of the brooches is of silver and its head-plate is ornamented with 

 a spiral pattern which, though råtner awkwardly executed, is 

 evidently of the same sort as the common ornaments of the early ■ 

 brooches in relief. For an exact fixing of the date, these ornaments 

 are, however, not very instructive; it may be said only that they 

 are certainly later than the time of the silver-plated brooches ■ — 

 viz. the middle of the 5th cent. and they are probably to be dated 



Fijr. 164 



J ) Lunde, Vanse pg.d. Lister. B. 4286. Ab. 1884, p. 95. 



