1906] 
The eruciform brooches of Norway. 123 
EE Org) 
Sth eent., the date of the deposit in the moss being probably rather 
after than before that point of time, though I think some of the 
objeets somewhat 
older.  Thus the 
brooeh which from 
its form alone might 
belong to the end 
of the 4th cent. 
has been found in 
a grave that cannot 
be older than to- 
wards the middle 
of the 5th cent. 
In connexion 
with this grave 
from Ringerike I 
draw the attention 
to some brooches 
found in Sogn and 
shown here as figs. 
145—147.1) The 
bow of the fine 
silver brooch (fig. 
146) is ornamented 
in å way closely 
allied to the moun- 
tings fig. 144 and 
still more closely 
to some pieces of 
the smaller Nydam- 
find, and this sort 
of ornaments, being 
So peculiar respect- 
ing as well the 
patterns as the 
proceeding used in 
executing them, 
must have been 
v UN == === at ei 
sil] | E ER SEE 
n 
Fig. 144. L/q. 
confined to a rather short time; the brooch here in question 
1) Ølnes, Sogndal pgd. Sogn. B. 5968. B. M. Aarb. 1905, no. 14, p. 36. 
