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The cruciforni brooches of Norway. 



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f. The brooches whose foot enas in a triangular plate have also 

 been mentioned in the deseription of cruciforni brooches from the 

 Eastern part of the Peninsula; they have, at least in some degree, 

 got different forms within each of the two districts. But respecting 

 these brooches it is still more diffieult than it was in the preceding 

 series to make out the successive stages of the development. Most of 

 the known specimens have little in common with each other except 

 the peculiar form of the foot. In fact this triangular termination 

 seems to have been 

 combined with dif- 

 ferent variations of 

 the cruciforni broo- 

 ches, and as it did 

 not in other re- 

 spects influence the 

 shape of the broo- 

 ches it did not pro- 

 duce a new and 

 distinct variety of 

 the type. 1 ) Only 

 in one instance is 

 the flat triangular 

 foot found in a fixed 

 combination with a 

 constant form of 

 the brooch, namely 

 in the late broo- 

 ches of the variety 

 most characteristic 

 ofWesternNorway, 

 asseeninfig. 111. 2 ) 

 In every respect is 



this brooch quite identical with the late brooches represented by 

 figs. 91 — 95, the only difference being that the animal-head of the 

 foot is replaced by the flat, triangular plate. This form is known 

 from many specimens, all of them of exactly the same form, a 

 feature which is also characteristic of the West-Norwegian brooches 



a ) See figs. 65 and 66 above. Salin: Thievornamentik p. 73, fig. 159. 

 2 ) Skeie, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B. 4226 b. Ab. 1883, p. 68, no. 47. Com- 

 pare Rygh fig. 253. 



