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noteworthy development in Scandinavia, it is not possible to put 

 together a typological series showing the successive transformations 

 of it. In fact, it presents råtner a number of different combinations 

 than what might be called a development of the form, with exception 

 of the gradual eifacing of the splits in the edge of the foot-plate 

 already mentioned. The form of the bow is not constant, as the 

 top-plate is often missing, and the bow has then got the common 

 facetted form (see fig. 62 and fig. 108 ; ] ) the bow of the last men- 

 tioned has, however, varied in a very peculiar way, known only 

 from two brooches of the series here in question; they are of a 

 late date (compare fig. 181 below). In other specimens the bow 



Fig. 103. Vi- 



Fig. 104. % 



is flat and its surface ornamented with three parallel ribbons, a 

 form sometimes observed in the cruciform brooches, but probably 

 originally belonging to another type (Rygh fig. 557—560); a speci- 

 men of this sort is given fig. 109. 2 ) The bow is here of a very 

 simple execution. 



This branch of the cruciform brooches seems to have degene- 



*) Lunde, Vanse pgd. Lister. B. 4234. Ab. 1883, s. 76. 



2 ) Fig. 109 and 110 are both from Vestly, Lye pgd. Jæderen. B. 2532 

 and 2531. Lorange: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 56. — In the last of them is seen an 

 interesting combination with the form of the foot from late West-Norwegian 

 bi-ooches. 



