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The eraciform brooches of Norway, 



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our observations. The rest of the foot is seen in two principally 

 different varieties, contemporary witli eacli other, but not of the 

 same iinportance: the one, which is of all the most common form 

 in the Eastern district, is facetted in the same way as the bow, 

 while the other is provided with transverse mouldings. In the 

 description here, I think it most convenient to treat first the last 

 mentioned series, which is the less numerous and also, in some 

 dcsree. eontined to a more restricted district than the former one. 



Fig. 48. Vi- 



Fig. 49. s/ 4 . 



c. Brooches with the peculiar transverse mouJdings of the foot 

 are no speciality of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as brooches of this 

 sort are met with also among the early specimens from Sleswick- 

 Holstein and among- the later ones from Jutland, though they are 

 always in the minority compared with other varieties. The typo- 

 logically oldest specimen known from Norway is the fine brooch, 



