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trace of its original form is probably to be found in the cases where 

 the semicircular plate along the edge is provided Arith a series of 

 holes, placed close to each other, as seen in a fragment of snch 

 a brooch illustrated in fig. 64. 1 ) Such a form is evidently very 

 like the corresponding part of the Prussian brooches with star- 

 pattern foot. The possibility tims indicated will be discussed in 

 the following. 



/'. The brooches with the foot consisting of a triangular plate 

 must be considered as a variety chiefly belonging to the Western parts 



of the Peninsula, and of the not numerons specimens found within the 

 Eastern district great part is probably imported nere from the West. 

 It will be convenient also respecting this variety to reserve the 

 description for the following and at the same time to treat in con- 

 nexion with it a certain type of small bronze brooches with a 

 square upper plate, which has hitherto been regarded as a late 

 variety of the cruciform type. 



x ) Lasken, Sem pgd. Jarlsberg. C. 11623. Ab. 1883, p. 119 s. Cf. Mon- 

 telius: Från Jernåldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, from Skaane. 



