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reservation is perhaps needed; as most of the variations of the foot 

 mentioned in the following description, appear also in Denmark and 

 England as well as in Western Norway, these variations are not 

 in themselves sufficient to point out a form as belonging especially 

 to the Eastern parts of the Peninsula. Only when these variations 

 are found in brooches the other parts of whieh are made in the 

 fashion characteristic of Eastern Norway and Sweden, we may 

 refer the brooch in question to that district. I also note at once 

 that, as the variations of the foot are in some degree common to 



Fig. 38. Vi- 



all the eountries, where these brooches were made. they must be- 

 long to a time before the form developed separately in the different 

 eountries. 



As characteristies for all the later Norwegian and Swedish 

 forms may nere be mentioned, that the plate never has a concave 

 underside, and that the knobs are nearly always east in the same 

 piece as the plate, which as mentioned above is not the case in 

 Denmark and England. The brooch, except the pin with its sprirg 



