1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. I2276 
arehaeologists, I attribute the next stage which might be called the 
early brooches in relief, ornamented for the most part with spirals 
and other pgeometrical 
patterns, to the latter 
half of the 5th cent. — 
while I would place the 
late brooches in relief 
where animal-motives 
have replaced the ge- 
omeirical patterns, to the 
6th cent. A marked 
distinetion between the 
earlier and the later of 
these brooches belonging 
to the 6th cent. is far- 
ther established by the 
gradual degeneration of 
the animal-figures, ås 
will be clearly observed 
if we compare the com- 
plete and well executed 
figures along the edges 
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of the brooch fig. 170 OG | ÆR 
below with the meanine- G COM 
less patterns of the later UD? 
brooches (as fig. 191). 
Naturally, these ab- 
solute datings are given 
as approximate only and Y 
with the reservation al- Be AD 
ready mentioned, but in : 
any case it is evident that the large and fine brooches just recorded 
give å more complete expression of all changes in taste and style 
than any other contemporary antiquities and, consequently, that they 
recent find of Nydam, as these mountings and the brooches mentioned are closely 
allied in the patterns of the ornaments and still more in the technical process 
of their manufacture. The delicate ornamentation of these, punched or engraved, 
and decorated with the black enamelled lines of niello, represents å distincet 
period of the style in Scandinavian ornamentation, å period immediately pre- 
ceding the development of relief ornaments and to some extent contemporary 
with the first geometrical relief patterns. 
