132 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
respecting the principal differences between the N orwegian and the 
Danish varieties; the head of the brooch in question has undergone 
very few changes, 
but its later date 
is indieated by 
other features, e. 
g. by the unusu- 
ally high eatch- 
plate of the pin 
which is consider- 
ably shorter than 
the foot, exact- 
ly recalling the 
catch-plate of the 
brooch fed 195: 
From these 
finds it must be 
coneluded that 
erueiform broo- 
ches of the early 
and middle stages 
of development 
were used during 
the time of the 
silver-plated broo- 
ches, viz. the end 
of the 4th and the first half of the 5th cent. A. D. 
Fig. 155. 11. 
3. Cruciform brooches contemporary with early brooches 
mireler 
In the first place I record here two small and apparently in- 
significant fravments, figs. 157 and 158,1) from å grave on Jæderen. 
The eruciform brooch belongs to the middle stage, the knobs having 
preserved the full roundness though cast in one piece with the 
brooeh. The spiral-patterns of the other brooch indicate that this 
brooeh was probably made during the latter part of the 5th cent. * 
1) Anda, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B.2973—2974. LoranGE: N. Olds. i B. 
M. p. 683. | 
