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neither to meet with these relatively good specimens at a time when 

 other varieties were already declining towards the final degeneration 

 of the type, nor to find here a peculiar variation of the foot nearly 

 unknown among all the earlier varieties in Norway. When searehing 

 elsewhere for the more original stages of this variety of the foot, 

 we notice in Sleswick and Jutland a few specimens indicating its 

 earliest appearance already as early as in a middle stage of the 



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Fig. 83. Vi- 



development of the type, as seen in fig. 30, a brooch found in 

 Sleswick, the foot of which is provided with two small projections 

 at its upper end, which do not, however, influence the form of the 

 rest of the foot. And in a brooch from Jutland, fig. 85, x ) we see 



*) Jutland. Locality unknown. Copenhagen Museum, no. C. 8719. — The 

 drawing is most kindly afforded by the director, dr. Sophus Muller. 



