1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 59 
and in the Western parts of the Peninsula, but to a different direction 
of the typological development in the two distriets. 
The earliest erueiform brooches in Western Norway are, as 
above mentioned, exactly like specimens from the other Northern 
countries, and some of them have been figured already in the first 
part of this description. The early development of the type has 
also here gone in the same direction as described respecting the 
Eastern parts of the Peninsula; the knobs, originally placed upon 
the ends of the axis of the spring-coil or upon å separate axis, and 
generally provided with splits to keep the edge of the plate, are 
in later stages nearly always cast in the same piece as the rest 
of the brooch. As it would be superfluous through examples from 
Western Norway to repeat the description of this transformation of 
the construction, I proceed at once to describe the different later 
varieties of the territory here in question, intending after the 
deseription to resume the chief points in which they diverge from 
the varieties of the Kastern territory. To get a general view of 
the many varying forms I have also here arranged the brooches in 
different series, distinguished from one another especially by the 
variations of the form of the foot. As before, this arrangement is 
to be regarded chiefly as å practical division of the material and 
not as expressing deeper differences of importance respecting the 
origin of the type. 
For practical reasons the Western varieties are not described 
in the same order as the corresponding Eastern forms. 
a. Brooches whose foot is im its whole length formed as an 
animal-head are not numerous in Western Norway, and all those 
found have the form with a flat triangular space stretching down- 
wards from the end of the bow, the other form, fir. 41, being 
here totally wanting. The former is represented in Western Norway 
already from an early part of the development,') but as the oldest 
specimens are not at all different from the corresponding brooches 
in Eastern Norway — though never as fine and large as some of 
these ones — I shall here only deal with the later development of 
1) As an early brooch of this sort may be mentioned å specimen from 
Lygren, Lindaas pgd. Nordhordland. B. 3175. Ab. 1877, p. 69, with the side- 
knobs fixed upon a separate axis. 
