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than the earlier half of the 6th cent. as the peculiar shape of the 

 edges of its head-plate must be a copy from a form of the large 

 brooches which probably ceased to exist before the middle of the 

 century. A cruciform brooch found in association with it is shown 

 as fig. 178. This brooch has little of the characteristic features 

 which mark the late brooches from Norway, but the bad proportions, 

 especially those of the head-plate, and other details such as some 

 peculiarities of the bo\v's facets and the shortness of the foofs 

 stem may be mentioned. as indications of a late variety of the type. 

 It need not be mentioned that the knobs are all east in one piece 

 with the brooch. 



Fig. 179. Vi- 



Fig. 180. Vi 



Respecting the two brooches from Western Norway which are 

 shown as figs. 179 and 180 1 ) the chronological q.uestion seems more 

 difficult as the small bronze brooch is here deprived of all details 

 that could show the stage of development of the model brooch. In 

 itself the small brooch should probably be regarcled as later than 

 fig. 177, but the difference between these is not of a sort to allow 

 of more precise conclusions. I am inclined to date this find to the 

 middle of the 6th cent. — rather after than before that time. The 



i) Hauge, Voss pgd. Voss. B. 5637. B. M. Aarb. 1904, no. 6, p. 57. 



