1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 49 
Western parts of the Peninsula; it will then be practical to keep 
together as å whole all the brooches of this sort, and I consequently 
reserve the special treatment of them — their origin and develop- 
ment — for the following description of the forms in Western 
Norway. Here I have figured only two specimens to show the 
form as it appears in the Eastern district (figs. 62 and 63),*) both 
of them in many points showing an advanced stage of development, 
-as the knobs are cast concave from the underside, the side-knobs 
are somewhat smaller than the top-knob, and the bow is relatively 
longer than commonly seen in the ceruciform brooches. 
We also note that not only the peculiar form of the foot is 
here a novelty for the type; in most of these brooches the bow 
has got a flat little plate at the top, a detail nearly unknown in 
all the ordinary varieties of the type. "This circumstance is å proof 
more that. we have here to do with åa hybrid form, produced by 
combining the upper part of the late eruciform brooches with ele- 
ments originated from a different source. Respecting the foot, a 
1) Fig. 62: Lund, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. GC. 6075. Ab. 1872, p. 120. — 
Fig. 63: Bjørke, Hedrum pgd. Lafvik. OC. 17859. Ab. 1894, p. 102. 
