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indicate the special features characteristic of the separate form of 

 the Peninsula. Consequently, with the earliest appearance of this 

 variation of the foot we have left the stage of development common 

 to all the Northern countries, and I am inclined to think that wJiere 

 later brooches of this sort appear outside Western Norway it must 

 be explained through influence from that part ; this is at least a fact 

 respecting specimens found in other parts of the Peninsula. 



The special form of the foot seen in this brooch (fig. 86) is 

 no doubt closely related to the form represented in fig. 41 as 



the difference between them 

 chiefly consits in the thick 

 neck of the animal-head 

 which is a constant feature 

 in the West- Norwegian broo- 

 ches of this sort. It is also 

 by the thick neck of the 

 animal-head that the little 

 flat space of the foot is 

 marked as a distinct part of 

 it and prepared for further 

 development. It must be 

 remarked that the special 

 shape of the neck of the 

 animal-head seen here (in 

 fig. 86), which is certainly 

 the most original form of 

 this detail, is only found in 

 Western Norway where it 

 is preserved also in some 

 later specimens (so in fig. 

 87), r ) but it is generativ 

 changed into a moulded ribbon placed across the foot between the 

 animal-head and the flat space. Commonly this ribbon is quite 

 narrow (fig. 88) 2 ) and very like the same detail in many other 

 varieties ; in some instances it is broader and very like the shape of 

 the neck of the animal-head first mentioned, as seen in fig. 89, 3 ) a 



Fig. 87. Vi- 



1 ) Varhaug, Haa pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum no. 1559. 



2 ) Maandalen (?) Romsdalen. B. 5102. Ab. 1894, p. 172. 



3 ) Varhaug, Haa pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum no. 1460. 



