1906] The eruciform brooches of Norwav. 143 
dimensions than the silver brooches already recorded; moreover the 
surface is badly corroded and consequently the ornaments are in 
some , degree effaced. Its form seems to indicate å more advanced 
development than the mentioned silver brooches but from such details 
as the edves of the head-plate I am inelined to attribute it to å 
time not later than about the middle of the 6th cent. Thus this 
erueiform brooch also most probably belongs to a time within the 
earlier half of the century. Å date is thus given also for the other 
West-Norwegian brooches which are just the forms referred to 
above, figs. 91—97. After all what I have said here, I think it 
likely that the development of these forms was finished before the 
middle of the 6th cent. 
From about the same time as the brooches in relief before us 
must be the small imitations of them, made of bronze and without 
ornaments, but well preserving the form of their models. Though 
we miss here ornaments which are the best help for making out 
the date of the larse brooches, we are not left without all indieations 
as to the age of the finds, as some details of the form, for instance 
a series of small holes arranged along the edves of the head-plate, 
distinetly point to the stage of development of the model brooch. 
