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date than that of the cruciform brooches. In Norway it has been 
found in association with erueiform brooches of very late forms.) 
The development of this type is, generally speaking, the same 
in all distriets, it being chietly characterised by the disappearing of 
the ineisions in the head-plate which thus gets å simple square 
form. An instructive description of this development is given by 
dr. SALIN: 'Thierornamentik, p. 73—74. Especially England is 
very rich in varying forms belonging to this type, of which some 
later specimens have certainly been influenced by the eruciform 
brooches; in some instances it is even difficult to tell whether å 
brooeh is to be classified as belonging to the one or to the other 
of the two types. But upon 
the whole it is, perhaps, most 
striking to see how little con- 
nexion there has existed be- 
tween this form and the eruci- 
form brooches, a fact also 
pointing towards the different 
origin of the two forms. 
Before finishing the gen- 
eral typological description of 
the cruciform brooches in 
Scandinavia I think it inter- 
esting to try an analysis of a 
more irregular form, as seen 
in the brooch, fig. 114.% It 
is found in Sogn, and we see 
both from its form and dimensions, that it must be a product of 
Western Norway. 
Being cast very concave from the underside it must belong to 
a late stage of the development, and the shape of the head-plate 
and the knobs ranges it among the late specimens of the variety 
represented by figs. 86—100. The bow, however, has quite another 
appearance than the bow of these brooches; it is much longer than 
usually seen in West-Norwegian brooches of that time, the facetting 
1) See figs. 159—162 and figs. 163—167. 
2) Hove, Vik pgd. Sogn. B. 560. Lorancze: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 96. 
Ryen fig. 256. 
