1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 53 
who has carefully deseribed the find, when he thinks the brooches 
from Friedefetd elosely allied to the forms known from Sleswick 
and Holstein. Ås the brooches found in the last mentioned district 
have all been of earlier forms and as the intermediate stage, which 
eould connect them with the form known from KFriedefeld, is yet 
missing in these districts I think it at present the most reasonable 
explanation to suppose that they have in Pommerania been produced 
by imitation of Swedish forms, though I will not deny the Bos 
that this opinion may be contradieted by future finds. 
General transformations of the form during the development im 
Eastern Norway. On several places in the previous deseription of 
Fie: 
the special varieties of the type I have also occasionally made some 
remarks upon the general transformation which equally in all the 
parallel varieties indicates the advancement of the development. 
Though these features are commonly well known and moreover ean 
be extracted from the figures above, I think it practical to make 
here some further remarks upon them. 
The technical proceeding in the making of the brooches is 
always the same. They are nearly without exception of bronze — 
a few specimens are of silver; but hitherto no erueiform brooch is 
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