AS Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
but relatively high knobs, the narrow bow and the long foot. In 
spite of its rather archaic appearance it must be counted among 
the latest varieties (compare fig. 173 below). 
Among the early erueiform brooches the foot sometimes appears 
in rare and irregular varieties — as seen for instance in figs. 28 
and 29 — of which, however, no traces are found in the following 
development. But also among the late forms we meet with irre- 
gularities; and we shall here especially treat two not very numerous 
varieties of the foot, different from all we have hitherto seen and 
ME. 
Fig. 59. 1/1. 
certainly not originally belonging to the eruciform type. These 
varieties have the foot terminated by a semicireular or by a tri- 
angular plate. Such forms are unknown among the eruciform brooches 
till å relatively late stage of development and, consequently, it is 
in itself most likely that they have been transferred here from other 
contemporary types, but as both the forms are of different origin 
they ought to be treated separately. 
e. The brooches with the foot terminated by a semicireular plate 
are rather rare in all parts of Scandinavia, and there is little 
difference between the specimens found in the Eastern and in the 
