1906] The cruciform brooches of Norway. 145 
than the earlier half of the 6th cent. as the peculiar shape of the 
edges of its head-plate must be å copy from a form of the large 
brooehes which probably ceased to exist before the middle of the 
century. A cruciform brooch found in association with it is shown 
as fig. 178. This brooch has little of the characteristic features 
which mark the late brooches from Norway, but the bad proportions, 
especially those of the head-plate, and other details such as some 
peculiarities of the bow's facets and the shortness of the foot's 
stem may be mentioned as indications of a late variety of the type. 
It need not be mentioned that the knobs are all cast in one piece 
with the brooch. 
1. Fig. 180. 1. 
Respecting the two brooches from Western Norway which are 
shown as figs. 179 and 180*) the chronological question seems more 
difficult as the small bronze brooch is here deprived of all details 
that could show the stage of development of the model brooch. In 
itself the small brooch should probably be regarded as later than 
fig. 177, but the difference between these is not of a sort to allow 
of more precise conclusions. I am inelined to date this find to the 
middle of the 6th cent. — rather after than before that time. 'The 
1) Hauge, Voss pgd. Voss. B. 5687. B.M. Aarb. 1904, no. 6, p. 57. 
