1906] The cruciform brooches of Norway. 59 



and in the Western parts of the Peninsula, but to a different direction 

 of the typological development in the two districts. 



The earliest cruciform brooches in Western Norway are, as 

 above mentioned, exactly like specimens from the other Northern 

 countries, and some of them have been figured already in the first 

 part of this description. The early development of the type has 

 also here gone in the same direction as described respecting the 

 Eastern parts of the Peninsula; the knobs, originally placed upon 

 the ends of the axis of the spring-coil or upon a separate axis, and 

 generally provided with splits to keep the edge of the plate, are 

 in later stages nearly always east in the same piece as the rest 

 of the brooch. As it would be superfluous through examples from 

 Western Norway to repeat the description of this transformation of 

 the construction, I proceed at once to describe the different later 

 varieties of the territory here in question, intending after the 

 description to resume the chief points in which they diverge from 

 the varieties of the Eastern territory. To get a general view of 

 the many varying forms I have also here arranged the brooches in 

 different series, distinguished from one another especially by the 

 variations of the form of the foot. As before, this arrangement is 

 to be regarded chiefly as a practical division of the material and 

 not as expressing deeper differences of importance respecting the 

 origin of the type. 



For practical reasons the Western varieties are not described 

 in the same order as the corresponding Eastern forms. 



a. Brooches whose foot is in its wliole length formed as an 

 animal-Jiead are not numerous in Western Norway, and all those 

 found have the form with a flat triangular space stretching down- 

 wards from the end of the bow, the other form, fig. 41, being 

 here totally wanting. The former is represented in Western Norway 

 already from an early part of the development, 1 ) but as the oldest 

 specimens are not at all different from the corresponding brooches 

 in Eastern Norway — though never as fine and large as some of 

 these ones - - I shall here only deal with the later development of 



*) As an early brooch of this sort may be mentioned a specimen from 

 Lygren, Lindaas pgd. Nordhordland. C. 3175. Ab. 1877, p. 69, with the side- 

 knobs fixed upon a separate axis. 



