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Haakon Schetelig. 



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at that time, which means that brooches of this sort were then 

 commonly made by the Scandinavian workmen and were the fashio- 

 nable form of the time. Before describing the very latest flnds from 

 which we intend to study our type on the point of disappearing I ought 

 to mention that even in the 6th cent. some older brooches were 



Fig. ,186. "IVi- 



Fig. 187. Vi- 



Fiff. 188 



Fig. 189. Vv 



still in use and occasionally interred together with objects that are 

 certainly relics from the earlier half of the 6th cent. 1 ) Similar 



x ) So in a find from Øfsthus, Fjelberg pgd. Søndhordland. B. 3731. Ab. 

 1881, p. 87, pl. II figs. 12 and 13; and I. Ross: Arkeologiske nndersøgelser i 

 Fjelberg 1881; Ab. 1881, p. 40 — 45. The cruciform brooch from this grave is 

 certainly not later than the middle of the 5th cent., probably earlier, as it has 



