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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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logy fairly marked as a late specimen, and as it is of a very rare 

 form its date has no special importance. 



The two brooches shown as figs.- 182 — 183 2 ) have the appearance 

 of being later than the two just mentioned, though they are pro- 

 bably not later than the middle of the 6th cent. The cruciform 

 brooch of this lind is a very late specimen, but it has not yet lost 

 any of the characteristic details of the type. 



Fig. 184. Vi-' 



All the cruciform brooches which I have till now enumerated 

 as belonging to the earlier half of the 6th cent., are of a late 

 stage of development and they afford satisfactory evidence that this 

 stage of development of our type prevailed throughout Scandinavia 



2 ) Vik, Fjære pgd. Nedenes. C. 7072—82. Ab. 1874, p. 73, figs. 27 and 

 28; Kygh fig. 263. 



