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find is in many points allied to the late forms from Western Nor- 

 way, a fact which is probably due to an influence from that side. 

 I should therefore think that this find would allow of a reliable 

 conclusion about the date of sueh Westerns forms as figs. 91—97 

 ahove. 



In one instance a cruciform brooch of pure Western form, 

 though of the hybrid variety with triangular foot (fig. 176), has 



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Fig. 172 



Fig. 173. Vi- 



Fig. 174 Vi- 



been found together with a brooch belohging to oui' leading type. 

 The brooch in relief, shown as fig. 175, r ) is of bronze and of smaller 



x ) Tjøtte, Klep pgd. Jæderen. C. 4923—24. Ab. 1869, p. 83, pl. III, figs. 

 13 and 14. — For a detailed information of the brooch I am indebted to Mr. 

 Gustav Mørk. Mr. Mørk writes that the whole surface of the brooch is de-" 

 corated with animal-patterns, but that the edges of the head-plate are purely 

 geometrical. In the drawing the brooch seems more corroded than it actually is. 



