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The cruciform brooches of Norway. 



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We return to the development of this series in Western Nor- 

 way. In some cases the flat part of the foot is not provided with 

 lower wings such as we have seen in all the former brooches of 

 this series, but the flat part is itself made broader, thus forming a 

 flat, rectangular plate, broader than both the end of the bow and 

 the neck of the animal-head (fig. 97). a ) It is possible, thoiigh not 

 certain, that this form which we have already met with in a few 



Fig. 94. Vi- 



brooches of the Eastern district (for instance figs. 45 and 46) may be 

 explained as a simplification of the form treated above (figs. 90 — 

 96). This explanation is at least typologically very probable and 

 the two forms may be regarded as closely related to each other. 

 The flat plate of the foot appears in varying forms; in the frag- 



] ) Bø, Haa pgd. Jæderen. C. 7530. Ab. 1875, p. 88, no. 112. 



