1906] The cruciform brooches of Norway. 151 
It is important that this brooch (fig. 184)*) was found i Northern 
Sweden, in Helsingland, where it represents åa late development of 
a variety originally belonging to Western Norway. It was found 
together with another brooch (fig. 185) with decoration in relief 
- ornaments which are characteristic of the latter half of the 6th 
cent. (Saurn's late style I). The figure shows that the cruciform 
brooeh is transformed in å very high degree both with regard to 
the form and to the proportions of the brooeh. 
The contemporary eruciform brooches of Norway have already 
lost all the marked characteristics of the form, as shown here in 
the figs. 186?) and 190.% The former of these brooches was found 
in association with åa brooch in relief, fig. 187, and two gold brac- 
teates, figs. 188 and 189, which are of å much more advanced de- 
velopment than the corresponding forms from the beginning of the 
6th cent. (compare fig. 174 above). The other find makes the im- 
pression of being still later if we judge from the brooches in relief 
figs. 191 and 192. Two bracteates from the same grave are shown 
as figs. 193 and 194. It is certain that neither find is earlier than 
the middle of the 6th cent. and later than the end of this century.*) 
Little is to be said about the two brooches; both of them are small 
and plain and, although they undoubtedly belong to the cruciform 
type, they have preserved very little of the characteristic details 
of the earlier varieties. They indicate as clearly as possible the 
stage of a type on the point of becoming extinct, and they represent 
the latest finds of cruciform brooches which I know from Scandinavia. 
1) Utnås, Forsa sn. Helsingland. Hudiksvall Museum no. 87. From Prof. 
MonNTELIUS: ,»Huru gamal er bygden i Helsingland?* Stockholm 1901, p. 16, 
figs. 35 and 36. — Dr. ÅLMGREN has kindly informed me that this cruciform 
brooch is the specimen which should have been figured by dr. HILDEBRAND in 
»Antiquarisk tidskrift för Sverige” IV, fig. 181, but by a curious mistake during 
the printing it was replaced upon the plate by an English brooch, borrowed from 
NEVILLE, which also appears as fig. 187 in the same work. 'The error has been : 
repeated in some later publications, so by MOoNTELIUS in , Svenska Fornminnes- 
föreningens tidskrift* X, p. 58, fig. 130, and by SaLIn: Thierornamentik, p. 190, 
fig, 462; it was first corrected by MONTELIUS in the paper cited here. 
2) Gyland, Bakke pgd. Lister. OC. 7456. Ab. 1875, p. 82, pl. III figs. 13 
and 14. 
3) Aagedal, Bjelland pgd. Mandal. B. 3410. Ab. 1879, p. 287, pl. VII 
figs. 41 and 42. s 
%) The date ot the last mentioned find given by Prof. 0. RyaH and re- 
ferred to by Prof. SorHus BuaGE (Norges Indskrifter med de ældre Runer, vol. 
I, p. 187) is certainly too late. | 
