148 Haakon Schetelig. JRO ; 
at that time, which means that brooches of this sort were then 
commonly made by the Scandinavian workmen and were the fashio- 
nable form of the time. Before describing the very latest finds from 
which we intend to study our type on the point of disappearing I ought 
to mention that even in the 6th cent. some older brooches were 
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still in use and oceasionally interred together with objects that are 
certainly relies from the earlier half of the 6th cent.” Similar 
1) So in a find from Øfsthus, Fjelberg pgd. Søndhordland. B. 3731. Ab. 
1881, p. 87, pl. IT figs. 12 and 13; and I. Ross: Arkeologiske undersøgelser i 
Fjelberg 1881; Ab.«1881, p. 40—45. The cruciform brooch from this grave is 
certainly not later than the middle of the 5th cent., probably earlier, as it has 
