60 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
them, of which three specimens are shown in figs. 74—76,") all 
showing a rather advanced transformation especially respecting the 
bow and the knobs. The more surprising is it to see in the first 
of them a form of the foot very elosely resembling the same part 
of some of the early specimens figured among the Eastern forms 
and appearing as an archaism in combination with a brooch of the 
later development. To explain how so original å form of the foot 
could be used in å brooch the other parts of which have been 
transformed already 
in å high degree, I 
must here anticipate 
the conelusion, chietly 
founded upon the fol- 
lowing series, that the 
veneraltransformation 
of the form has taken 
place more rapidly 
in Western Norway, 
and that consequently 
some more advanced 
forms here may be, 
chronologieally, coin- 
eident with earlier 
stages in =Hastern 
Norway. 
In the next two 
figures I note the 
punehed and ineised 
ornaments, as such de- 
corated brooches are 
rarer in the Western 
parts of the Penin- 
sula; it is also remarkable that on these specimens the ornamen- 
tation is generally not so rich as on the specimens found in Eastern 
Norway and i Jutland. 
1) Fig. 74: Dirdal, Høgsfjord pgd. Ryfylke. OC. 3457. N. NICOLAYSEN: 
Norske Fornlevninger, p. 798. — Fig 75: Gjervik, Hammer pgd. Nordhordland. 
B. 2266. LoranGE: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 85. — Fig. 76: Obrestad, Haa pgd. 
Jæderen. B. 4344. Ab. 1885, p. 83. 
