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them, of which three specimens are shown in figs. 74— 76, 1 ) all 

 showing a rather ådvanced transformation especially respecting the 

 bow and the knobs. Tlie more surprising is it to see in the first 

 of them a form of the foot very closely resembling the same part 

 of some of the early specimens figured among the Eastern forms 

 and appearing as an archaism in combination with a brooch of the 

 later development. To explain how so original a form of the foot 

 could be used in a brooch the other parts of which have been 



transformed already 

 in a high degree, I 

 must nere anticipate 

 the conclusion, chiefly 

 founded upon the fol- 

 lowing series, that the 

 general transformation 

 of the form has tåken 

 place more rapidly 

 in Western Norway, 

 and that consequently 

 some more ådvanced 

 forms here may be, 

 chronologically, coin- 

 cident with earlier 

 stages in Eastern 

 Norway. 



In the next two 

 figures I note the 

 punched and incised 

 ornaments, as such de- 

 corated brooches are 

 rarer in the "Western 

 parts of the Penin- 

 sula; it is also remarkable that on these specimens the ornamen- 

 tation is generally not so rich as on the specimens found in Eastern 

 Norway and i Jntland. 



Fig. 74. Vi- 



] ) Fig. 74: Dirdal, Høgsfjorcl pgd. Ryfylke. C. 3457. N. Nicoeaysen: 

 Norske Fornlevninger, p. 798. — Fig 75: Gjervik, Hammer pgd. Nordhordland. 

 B. 2266. Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 85. — Fig. 76: Obrestad, Haa pgd. 

 Jæderen. B. 4344. Ab. 1885, p. 83. 



