46 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
larger and the facetted stem shorter than before. This series is 
also very instructive as to the changes of the other parts of the 
brooches during the late development in the Fastern parts of the 
Peninsula. In the brooch fis. 55 the form and the proportions 
of the original type are not much changed, as the knobs have pre- 
terte Ft 
EH 
=> 
Ag 
prat 
F 
Fig. are. DEE 
Kreo0n 
served the round form though they are all cast in the same piece 
with the rest of the brooch, and as the dimensions of the plate, 
which is only a little broader than it is high, have the same rela- 
tions to each other as in the early forms. In the specimen fig. 58 
