136 Haakon Schetelig. [No 8. 
the clasp; I am inclined to suggest that it must be of about the 
year 500 A. D. 
The association of these antiquities with the small brooch fig. 
161, is of great interest, affording help to date the origin of that 
form, but as I do not consider it to belong to the crueiform type 
I think this is not the place to go deeper into the question. 
I know of no other find presenting an association of early 
brooches in relief with erueiform brooches, but one find more ought 
to be mentioned in this connexion, as in some degree contributing 
to the solution of these questions. Å remarkable series of broo- 
ehes from one grave in 
Lister is illustrated in 
the following five figures 
(163—167).*) The grave 
contained eight brooches 
— besides those illu- 
exactly the same form 
as fig. 166 and a frag- 
ment insufficient for elas- 
sitication — of which six 
belong to the eruciform 
type, probably the great- 
est number of this type 
known to have been 
found in one grave, and 
as the grave was exa- 
mined by an expert, Mr. 
Å. SALVESEN, no doubt 
exists as to the correct- 
ness of the report. One 
of the brooches is of silver and its head-plate is ornamented with 
a spiral pattern which, though rather awkwardly executed, is 
evidently of the same sort as the common ornaments of the early 
brooches in relief. For an exact fixing of the date, these ornaments 
are, however, not very instructive; it may be said only that they 
are certainly later than the time of the silver-plated brooehes — 
viz. the middle of the 5th cent. and they are probably to be dated 
Fig. 164. 1. 
1) Lunde, Vanse pgd. Lister. B. 4286. Ab. 1884, p. 95. 
strated two specimens of 
