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velopment of the form, and after that time, when the type was no 
more the favourite ornament, there ought to have existed some 
degenerated varieties. When enumerating, as much as possible in 
the natural chronological order, the finds which I intend to treat 
here, it will not be diffieult to point out two different stages of 
the character just indicated; the date of transition is probably to 
be placed about the middle of the century, which thus also indicates 
the end of the development. But I must at once remark that, 
with respect to the earlier half of the century, the largest and 
finest of the cruciform brooches are rarely found in association with 
the fine brooches in relief, as generally only one of the large broo- 
ches was wanted for the dress of one person; the conelusions re- 
garding the chronology of this part of the development must there- 
fore be drawn from å small number of finds and partly from 
specimens which are not of the highest workmanship of the time. 
In the tirst of these finds, however, we have to do with the 
very remarkable brooch shown as fig. 731) above. Both the di- 
mensions and the ornaments show thåt this brooch is-one of the 
finest specimens from Eastern Norway, and by the peculiar moulding 
of its knobs and by its gilt surface it is marked as a rather late 
specimen in spite of the fact that the side-knobs are made separately 
and placed upon the axis of the spring-coil. The ornaments are 
in some degree allied to the early brooches in relief. As it is 
worn — the ornaments at the top of the bow are partially etfaced 
by long use — it must have been an old brooch already at the 
time when it was placed in the grave. The large silver brooch 
fig. 170 was found in the same grave. It represents an intermediate 
stage between the early and the late brooches in relief, as the 
head-plate is still ornamented with geometrical patterns, while the 
edges are decorated with four animal-figures, and the whole sur- 
face of the foot has been covered with similar animals. This sort 
of brooches must be attributed to the earliest part of the 6th cent. 
and it seems likely that also the eruciform brooeh belongs to the 
same time, though its date must probably be somewhat earlier than 
the silver brooch. Itis difficult, however, to draw more conelusions 
frem this find as the eruciform brooeh in question is in every re- 
spect very irregular. 
1) Langlo, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. OC. 5951. AD. 1872, p. 104, pl. I fig. 
5 and 6. 
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