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Haakon Schetelig. 



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a groove to keep the edge of the plate; 

 none of the other varieties are repre- 

 sentert by such fine specimens at the 

 same stage of development. These broo- 

 ches (figs. 39 — 40), being found in Nor- 

 way only. must be regarded as a Nor- 

 wegian speciality, developed here from 

 a very primitive form of the foot. a 

 form which is seen in flg. 143 below. 

 The fine specimens are richly ornamented 

 with silver inlaid in the surface or with 

 geometrical patterns exeeuted with a 

 punch. Their origin must probably be 

 referred to the Eastern parts of the 

 country, in spite of the circumstance 

 that the best specimens have been actu- 

 ally found in Romsdalen and that some 

 of them are known from Western Nor- 

 way; for ornaments exeeuted with a 

 punch are commonly met with in all 

 Eastern varieties of the cruciform broo- 

 ches but are seen rarely in brooches 

 belonging especially to the Western part 

 of Norway. 



The variety represented here as figs. 

 41 — 42 is found most commonly in Nor- 

 way, but as one specimen whose foot is 

 arranged in a similar manner, is known 

 from Jutland 1 ), I think it likely that 

 both the Norwegian and the Danish 

 specimens of this sort are derived from 

 a common origin in the district about 

 the mouth of the Elbe. though I know 

 of no specimen found there. 



Fig. 39. Vi- 



*) Copenhagen Museum, no. 25562. 



