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The crueiform brooches of Norway. 



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Western parts of the Peninsula; it will then be practical to keep 

 together as a whole all the brooches of this sort, and I consequently 

 reserve the special treatment of them — their origin and develop- 

 ment — for the following description of the forms in Western 

 Norway. Here I have ilgured only two specimens to show the 

 form as it appears in the Eastern district (figs. 62 and 63), r ) botn 

 of them in many points showing an advanced stage of development, 

 as the knobs are east concave from the underside, the side-knobs 

 are somewhat smaller than the top-knob, and the bow is relatively 

 longer than commonly seen in the crueiform brooches. 



Fig. 62. Vi- 



We also note that not only the peculiar form of the foot is 

 here a novelty for the type; in most of these brooches the bow 

 has got a flat little plate at the top, a detail nearly unknown in 

 all the ordinary varieties of the type. This circumstance is a proof 

 more that we have here to do with a hybrid form, produced by 

 combining the upper part of the late crueiform brooches with ele- 

 ments originated from a different source. Eespecting the foot, a 



!) Fig. 62: Lund, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. C. 6075. Ab. 1872, p. 120. — 

 Fig. 63: Bjørke, Hedrum pgd. Larvik. C. 17859. Ab. 1894, p. 102. 



