32 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
reservation is perhaps needed; as most of the variations of the foot 
mentioned in the following description, appear also in Denmark and 
England as well as in Western Norway, these variations are not 
in themselves sufficient to point out å form as belonging especially 
to the Fastern parts of the Peninsula. Only when these variations 
are found in brooehes the other parts of which are made in the 
fashion characteristic of Eastern Norway and Sweden, we may 
refer the brooch in question to that distriet. I also note at once 
that, as the variations of the foot are in some degree common to 
Fig. 38. 1 
all the countries, where these brooches were made, they must be- 
long to a time before the form developed separately in the different 
countries. 
As characteristies for all the later Norwegian and Swedish 
forms may here be mentioned, that the plate never has a concave 
underside, and that the knobs are nearly always cast in the same 
piece as the plate, which as mentioned above is not the case in 
Denmark and England. The brooch, except the pin with its spring 
