124 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 | 
may therefore be regarded as nearly contemporary with the 
mountings mentioned above and this brooch was eonsequently 
used at the same time as the brooch fig. 143. 'Phis conelusion 
which seems at first rather surprising, as the silver brooch presents 
in all its parts å much more advanced stage of development than 
the brooch from Ringerike, is confirmed by an examination of the 
two other brooches found in the same grave (figs. 145 and 147). 
The larger of them, which is in itself of great typologieal interest, 
is best classified, as to type, with the brooch from Ringerike (fig. 
| 143) while the smaller 
specimen (fig. 147) pre- 
sents an intermediate stage 
between that brooeh and 
the silver brooeh. It is 
then certain that these 
very different varieties of 
the type have been used 
at the same time and have 
sometimes been worn even 
by the same person, but 
from this single fact we 
DE are not allowed to con- 
po elude that these different 
28 brooehes were made at 
SA the same time. Itis more 
likely that people eeased 
Ke to make brooches of the 
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older varieties when new 
forms had come into use, 
and the instances in which 
different stages of the 
development are represented in one grave, viz. in the possession 
of one person, only prove that these different stages are not separated 
by so long an interval of time that the earlier forms had disap- 
peared before the new ones were introduced. From the finds eited 
here, it is therefore clear that the typological change, which con- 
sists of casting the side-knobs in one piece with the brooch, as has 
been done in the case of the silver brooceh fig. 146, took place in 
Norway at a time not much later than the date of the early broo- 
ches, figs. 143 and 145, probably during the former half of the 
