1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 51 
To show the form here in question, I have given as fig. 651) 
a little brooeh where the foot seems to represent the more original 
shape of this form, and as fig. 667) a brooch representing nearly 
the most advanced degeneration of form possible. In the latter 
figure the bow is provided with a little top-plate, a detail which is 
here rarer than in the variety treated above. 
Some of the Swedish specimens with the foot consisting of a 
triangular plate are in many points different from all I have seen 
in Norway, as also in other cases several more isolated varieties 
found in Sweden seem to indicate an independent development in 
Fig. 66. AG 
that country; but the material is here too scarce to admit of any 
precise conclusions. 
I will not close the description- of the erueiform brooches in 
the Eastern territory before having mentioned å very remarkable 
find of three such brooches at Friedefeld in Pommerania (figs. 67— 
69)*?), the forms of which are most closely related to some Swedish 
1) Giskegjerde, Borgund pgd. Søndmør. B. 720. LoranGE: N. Olds. i B. 
M., p- 108. 
2) Nordre Fevang, Sandeherred pgd. Larvik. OC. 6935. Ab. 1874, p. 134. 
3) Dr. H. Scumann: Skeleterab aus der Völkerwanderungszeit aus Friede- 
feld, in Nachrichten iiber deutsche Altertumsfunde, 1898, p. 93, figs. 1—4. 
