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date of the cruciform brooeh is here of some importance as it points 
also to the date of other cases of the same form such as figs. 82 —83 
above. The very peculiar form of the animal-head leads also to 
the fixing of the date of another variety, fig. 84, which is somewhat 
earlier than the others as far as can be concluded from the typology 
of the animal-head, a conclusion supported also by a closer study of 
the cases were this form is found associated with other antiquities. 
In connexion with the considerations before us I will mention 
a few brooches of hybrid forms, but partially developed from the 
large brooches in relief and which ought therefore to be included 
in å diseussion on these chronological questions. Thus the specimen 
ee Ho ds Fig. 18800 
fig. 181') is by the form of the head-plate so closely allied to some of 
the large brooches in relief that it affords an indication as to the date 
of the grave where it was found. The typological origin of some other 
parts of it may be put aside as of no interest to our researches; I will 
only call attention to the special form of the edges of the head-plate, 
a form which undoubtedly reminds of a similar feature in some of the 
large brooches from the earlier half of the 6th cent. For reasons already 
mentioned I think this brooch must be from about the same time 
as the said large brooches, and this conelusion must be extended 
to comprise also the erueiform brooeh, shown as fig. 108, which 
was found associated with it. This brooch is with respect to typo- 
1) Lunde, Vanse ped. Lister. B. 4934. See foot-note p. 87. 
