1906] The erueiform brooches of Norway. 11 
of the same form as Ryan fig. 353. 'The youngest specimen of 
this sort which I have seen, is given as fig. 7;)) it is said to have 
been found in å grave, containing besides the brooch some weapons 
which are not likely to be older than the 6th cent. The brooch 
itself indicates by its form, especially by the bow which is broad 
and concave from the underside, å later stage of development. 
The other parts show very little variation from the original type, 
an evident proof that it has not been this form, which produced 
the rich development of the eruciform brooches of the 5th and 6th 
cent. in Scandinavia. We must, however, before leaving it, note 
another form, produced by a slight variation of the Roman type 
and represented here by the specimens tigs. 8 
and 9.7) The only difference from the form 
described above is found in the piece separat- 
ing the upper knob from the end of the bow. 
Though this detail is found in no Roman 
brooeh, the connexion with those mentioned 
above is not to be mistaken; it has perhaps 
come up as å form of compromise, the Teutonic 
brooches of the same family always having the 
knob placed a little above the end of the bow, 
though arranged in another way than the variety 
treated here.*”) That this one is closely con- 
nected with the Roman type is, moreover, brought 
to evidence by some of them having, instead 
of a spring-coil after the common Teutonie 
fashion, åa hinge just of the same arrangement 
as the contemporary brooches from the Roman 
provinees. We find this peculiarity in the 
specimen fig. 10%), — probably from the time about 400 — showing 
not only the Roman arrangement of the hinge but also an imitation 
of the solid beam which, in the Roman forms, took the place of 
the spring-ceoil of the Teutonic brooches. The other parts of this 
1) Tuneim, Lye pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum, no. 111—117. 
2) Fig. 8: Gjerløv, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. Tønsberg Museum, no. 40. — 
Fig. 9: Øvstebø, Vikedal pgd. Ryfylke. Stavanger Museum, no. 2261, Stav. mus. 
aarsb. 1900, p. 71. 
3) For the history of this detail compare also MEsTorF: Altertiimer, fig. 581. 
% Litleland, Haaland pgd. Jæderen, Stavanger Museum, no. 2595. Stav. 
mus. aarsb. 1908. p. 98. 
