1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 103 
in the animal-head to be spoken of below, and I am inclined to 
think that the English workman when induced to form å brooch 
in this peculiar manner different from all the current forms of his 
own eountry, must have seen å somewhat similar brooch of Nor- 
wegian workmanship. It is of no little importance to state the 
earliest trace of connexion between Norwegian and English forms 
of the Migration-Period and I therefore antecipate here the 
ehronologieal tixation of the corresponding Norwegian forms which 
is treated in the following; they are attributed to the latter 
half of the 5th cent. Probably it is 
contemporary with the English brooches 
just dealt with and shown in the figs. 
120 and 121.)) 
Respecting the Kentish brooch I GE 
draw attention to the small serolls 
forming the nose of the animal-head; 
they are the most primitive form and 
the earliest appearance of this detail 
so common in the later eruciform broo- 
ches of England, and are also inter- 
esting as another link of connexion 
with the Danish forms. In Denmark, 
however, this detail is by far less 
commonly used than in Engiand and 
it is not observed in the cruciform 
brooches there, but it is at all events 
not unknown among the ornamental 
forms of Denmark?) while it is quite 
unknown in Norway and Sweden. I 2 
am not able to make out whether this Fig: 1924. 1/. 
form has come from Denmark to Eng- 
land or vice verså and for my present purpose it is sufficient to 
point it out as å trace of the close connexion existing between the 
forms in England and those in Denmark at that time. 
To indicate the latest stage of development of what might .be 
1) The Kentish brooch is found in association with another brooch provided 
with five projections from the semicircular head-plate (SALIN: Thierornamentik, 
p. 35, fig. 79) a fact which agrees well with the date given here. 
2) Cf. MörLcer: Jernalderen fig. 509. SaLmN: Thierornamentik, p. 189, 
fig. 459. 
