1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 41 
our observations. The rest of the foot is seen in two principally 
ditferent varieties, contemporary with each other, but not of the 
same importance: the one, which is of all the most common form 
in the Eastern district, is facetted in the same way as the bow, 
while the other is provided with transverse mouldings. In the 
description here, I think it most convenient to treat first the last 
mentioned series, which is the less numerous and also, in some 
degree, confined to a more restricted district than the former one. 
c. Brooches with the peculiar tramsverse mouldings of the foot 
are no speciality of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as brooches of this 
sort are met with also among the early specimens from Sleswick- 
Holstein and among the later ones from Jutland, though they are 
always in the minority compared with other varieties. The typo- 
logically oldest specimen known from Norway is the fine brooch, 
