1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 139 
logieal questions. The grave alluded to*) contained å eruciform brooch 
(fig. 168) associated with a fragment of another brooch (fig. 169) 
and some other antiquities. The fragment forms part of åa brooch 
of the same sort as fig. 159 and is probably from about the same 
time. The crueiform brooch, on the contrary, is very peculiar. I 
call attention to the slightly bent head-plate with concave under- 
side; to the side-knobs, now lost, but originally fixed upon the axis 
of the spring-eoil; to the neeck and the nose of the animal-head 
whose form is allied to some Danish antiquities, for instance the 
bronze-mountings illustrated by dr. MörLcer, in ,Ordning af Dan- 
marks Oldsager, Jernalderen* fig. 509. By all these features the 
brooeh is pointed out as å stranger among Norwegian antiquities, 
though it does not sufficiently conform with any Danish brooch 
known to prove that-it was really made in Denmark. It is how- 
ever marked by a strong influence from the peculiarities predominant 
among the cruciform brooches in Denmark and, consequently, its 
association with the fragment of a brooch, illustrated in fig. 169, 
allows of no direct conclusion respecting the chronology of the 
normal Norwegian forms. It atfords å good indication as to the 
principal difference between the contemporary brooches in Denmark 
and those in the Scandinavian Peninsula.) 
4. Crueiform brooches contemporary with late brooches 
mereler 
When passing to the finds dating from the 6th cent. we leave 
with very few exceptions the early and middle forms of the eruci- 
form brooches. Å distinction ought here to be made between finds 
from the earlier part and from the later part of the 6th cent.; it 
seems very doubtful wether the cruciform brooches were actually 
in use down to the end of the 6th cent. and one should in any 
case expect to meet with two different stages of development within 
this century. In continuation of the forms attributed to the time about 
the year 500 we naturally find the culmination of the ornamental de- 
1) Stoveland, Holme pgd. Mandal. OC. 8933—8950. Ab. 1878, p. 178, pl. 
I, fig. 7 and 8 (0. RyGH: Undersøgelser paa en gravplads fra ældre jernalder 
paa Holme ved Mandal). 
2) A eruciform brooch of almost the same form is known from Sweden; 
Stockholm Museum 6765: 7. (Locality unknown). 
