Thank you so much Boukje.

Thank you so much mate.

Thank you so much Marion.

Thank you so much mate.

Tusen takk. Å søke her nord er ikke noen garanti for å finne noe, Jeg har mange turer uten funn. Det har alltid vært langt færre folk bosatt her nord i forhold til i sør så egentlig er sjansen for å finne noe i sør langt større.

It's a Square-headed brooch with spade-like foot. A few of this type have been found in Vesterålen, 1 on Mør, about 20 on Vestlander, 5 on Østlandet and 2 in Denmark (Anna Bitner-Wroblewsska 2001:From Samland to Rogaland. East-west connections in Baltic basin during early migration period pp: 72). Brooches with a spade-shaped foot are generally most common in Northern Norway and Western Norway (in Norway) as well as Southern Sweden and the Baltic countries.

The figures on some of the cutlery end fittings can look quite frightening 😄 some look like skeletons and skulls, some of them look like they were made by children.

@@MisterTell1 their connections must have gone beyond the Baltic Basin as brooches with these spatula feet and sometimes bows with buttons on them are also quite common in England can't remember to have ever seen a direct match for yours, but the overall appearance and style is similar never saw one of them in the Schleswig region - my last anglo-brooches are squareheaded brooches with still regular beast-head-feet and from around the very early 6th at best.....population rapidly declines here in the South after ca 500 and is almost completely gone for a while after ca 550... .odd also that our brooch types are dominant from Vesterålen (that's pretty damn faaar north!) all the way down to Bordesholm but then abruptly stop and barely ever appear in the original saxon lands apparently completely different sphere of influence during the times of Wermund, Freawine, Offa and others. and those late medieval cutlery handles are indeed sometimes very weird ! my last one looked like a a face in semi-profile with a well groomed pointy beard attached to a dog's head with flappy ears and longer fur and all of this on a way too long kinda giraffe neck 😂

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