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Haakon Schetelig. 



[No. 8 



The relatively advanced transformation of the general shape of this 

 brooch is a striking- feature when seen in combination with the very 

 original arrangement of the constructive parts of it — the side-knobs 

 and the catch-plate of the pin — and the same peculiarity is observed 

 also in the following two brooches, figs. 78 and 79, x ) though the 

 transformation here is somewhat different from flg. 77. Typologically 

 they are referred to a later stage by having the side-knobs east 

 in one piece with the rest of the brooch, but in both of them all 

 the knobs have preserved the full roundness, and the catch-plate of 

 the pin is as long as the foot. In relation to other Norwegian broo- 



Fig. 76. 'A 



Fig. 77. 



ches they are no doubt to be regarded as earlier than the middle 

 stage of the development; the details of the form are, however, more 

 different from the original type than I have seen in any instance 

 of the corresponding forms in the Eastern territory. 



I am fully aware of the risk by inferring from a few brooches 

 of this sort a more general rule of development, but from the 

 number of such cases in Western Norwav — and more of them 



] ) Fig. 78: Western Norway. Locality unknown. B. 5631 a. B. M. Aarb. 

 1904, no. 6, p. 55. — Fig. 79: Obrestad, Haa pgd. Jæderen. B. 4344 6. Ab. 

 1885, p. 83. 



