1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 119 
ance in Norwegian graves associated with antiquities of the same 
forms as in the find of Nydam. Thus the brooch fig. 135 was found 
in å grave associated with the bronze mountings of åa scabbard 
shown as fig. 1361) which is just of the form most characteristic 
of the Nydam find. Specimens belonging to the prototype of the 
erueiform brooches are, however, not numerous in our country "and 
in most cases they have not been found in association with objects 
that could afford more precise indications regarding the absolute 
date of the find. Å 
grave at Kvasseim on 
Jæderen contained, 
besides the brooeh fig. 
22 above, only a small. Å” 4 
oval-shaped buckle of 
iron. In another grave 
of the same cemetery 
were found two broo- 
ehes figs. 137 and 
138,%) but no other 
things which could 
cornfirm the said dat- 
ing of the brooches. 
The ineident is, how- 
ever, of much interest 
as indicating that 
these two forms — 
the prototype of the 
eruciform —brooches, 
fig. 137, and the half- 
Roman crossbow type, 
fig. 138 — were con- 
temporary and also 
that they appear originally as distinctly different forms. 
From the date of the prototype as it is derived from Prof. 
Monrznvs' dating of the Nydam-find, it seems very likely that the 
early cruciform brooches belong to the late part of the 4th cent. 
and this supposition is ascertained also by a find from Sleswick- 
Fig. 138. 12 
1) Moldestad, Tveid pgd. Nedenes. OC. 1589—94. Ryan figs. 197 and 241 
with text to fig. 197. 
?) Kvasseim, Egersund pgd. Jæderen. B. 5299. 
