1906] The cruciform brooches of Norway. 37 
however, certainly made here, as is clearly seen by comparing the 
details of figs. 43—46 with Western brooches of the same diseription 
(figs. 88—102). I call special attention to the frequent appearance, 
in brooches from the Eastern parts of the Peninsula, of an orna- 
mentation of the foot-plate, consisting of parallel lines and incisions 
in the edges, which is never observed in such brooches from Western 
Norway. In the four brooches (figs. 43—46) is seen å marked 
progress respecting the dimensions of the foot-plate, indicating the 
origin and development of this detail, as the plate is at first as 
TT NT pi 
ger ol VF 
AF vr 
Aa V 
hå Ul | HA Vit 
Å 1 
Fig. 44. 1/. 
broad as the bow only, and later on extends on both sides of it. 
But it is evident that already the first of the brooches illustrated 
(fig. 43)*) must belong to a late stage of development, the knobs 
having a flat underside, the catch-plate of the pin being very short, 
reaching only from the end of the bow to the neck, and the head- 
1) From MonTtELIUS, Svenska Fornsaker, fig. 327. 
