1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 43 
of it in å very curious brooch from Western Norway, shown as 
fig. 52, which must certainly date from the 4th cent. The upper 
part of this brooch is explained as an imitation of certain forms 
from the Roman territory; the form of the foot is not Roman, but 
I am not able to make out its first origin. Examples of its later 
development will be found in Mözzzer: Ordn. af Danm. Olds., Jern- 
alderen fig. 516 and in fig. 12 above. Transferred to the cruciform 
brooches the mouldings got å more rounded character which, however, 
did not much change the original form of the foot, which was always 
relatively long and narrow with parallel sides. 
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d. The series of brooches whose foot consists of a facetted stem 
and å short ammal-head is without comparison the most numerous 
one in the Eastern parts of the Peninsula, as it is also among the 
1) Western Norway, (locality unknown). B. 5591. B.M. Aarb. 1094, no. 6, 
p- 43. 
