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but relatively high knobs, the narrow bow and the loDg foot. In 

 spite of its råtner archaic åppearance it must be eounted among 

 the latest varieties (compare fig. 173 below). 



Among the early cruciform brooehes the foot sometimes appears 

 in rare and irregular varieties — as seen for instance in figs. 28 

 and 29 — of which, however, no traces are fonnd in the following 

 development. But also among the late forms we meet with irre- 

 gularities; and we shall here espeeially treat two not very numerous 

 varieties of the foot. different from all we have hitherto seen and 



Fig. 59. Vi 



Fig. 60. i 



certainly not originally belonging to the cruciform type. These 

 varieties have the foot terminated by a semicircular or by a tri- 

 angular plate. Such forms are unknown among the cruciform brooehes 

 till a relatively late stage of development and, consequently, it is 

 in itself most likely that they have been transferred here from other 

 contemporary types, but as both the forms are of different origin 

 they ought to be treated separately. 



e. The brooehes with the foot terminated by a semicircular plate 

 are rather rare in all parts of Scandinavia, and there is little 

 difference between the specimens found in the Eastern and in the 



