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trace of its original form is probably to be found in the cases where 
the semicireular plate along the edge is provided with a series of 
holes, placed close to each other, as seen in å fragment of such 
a brooch illustrated in fig. 64.1) Such a form is evidently very 
like the corresponding part of the Prussian brooches with star- 
pattern foot. The possibility thus indicated will be diseussed in 
the following. 
f. The brooches with the foot consisting of a triungular plate 
must be considered as å variety chiefly belonging to the Western parts 
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of the Peninsula, and of the not numerous specimens found within the 
Eastern district great part is probably imported here from the West. 
It will be convenient also respecting this variety to reserve the 
description for the following and at the same time to treat in con- 
nexion with it a certain type of small bronze brooches with å 
square upper plate, which has hitherto been regarded as a late 
variety of the cruciform type. 
1) Lasken, Sem pgd. Jarlsberg. 0. 11623. Ab. 1883, p. 119 s. Cf. Mon- 
TELIUS: Från Jernåldern, pl. 4, fig. 16, from Skaane. 
