1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 95 
is very little marked and its middle parts is not broader than its 
ends. (Certainly this form of the bow is so unique in Western 
Norway that we must conelude that it has come from another part 
of Scandinavia. Another point of interest is the ribbon along the 
middle of the bow which at once recalls å corresponding detail often 
observed in the prototype of the eruciform brooches (fig. 21); per- 
haps it must be considered as an archaism, very surprising in this 
late stage of the development. I am not able to give å satisfactory 
explanation of the occurence of this remarkable form of the bow in 
a late brooch made in Western Norway; but as å whole the form 
reminds us of a few of the Danish brooches,') and I consider it 
likely that the model of it has been å brooch from Denmark. 
The foot consists of two plates separated by å broad moulded 
ribbon. The upper of the plates is by its form related to the rare 
variety seen in fig. 84 which I have suggested may also have been 
derived from å Danish form. — The broad moulded ribbon in the 
form seen here is certainly different from the moulded neck of the 
animal-head, common in the late cruciform brooches of Western 
Norway, but very like the same part in many of the brooches of 
the type fig. 112 (compare. fig. 161 and also fig. 65) and, conse- 
quently, I am inelined to regard it as borrowed from that form, 
the more so as the whole form of the foot is not very unlike in 
these two instances. — Finally, the terminating plate, of semicireular 
form, is the plate whose origin I have tried to deduce from the 
Prussian brooches with star-pattern foot. 
It is not å new discovery that late forms show å combination 
of elements which have sprung from very different sources, and of 
course we must not imagine to ourselves that the workman, when 
making the brooch in question, picked out the different elements 
of it from a collection of different brooches actually placed before 
him. The different forms of ornaments used at the same time might 
in some instances naturally induee the workman to try a new com- 
bination of forms. But the general taste of prehistoric times does 
not seem to have been much inclined to such experiments as most 
of these combinations only got å short life. It is å most remark- 
able fact that the types remained so free from foreign elements as 
really was the case. 
1) As for example Copenhagen Museum no. OC. 3930, 2817, 2771, all found 
in Jutland, and all of them being in a late stage of development. 
