1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 61 
The peculiar transformation of the side-knobs, seen in fig. 76,. 
Is å nearly unique appearance. 
From this brooch and several others which must be attributed 
to the latest part of the development, it seems that the variety here in 
question lasted longer in Western Norway than in any other district. 
The late specimens of them are, however, small and in no respect 
especially remarkable; they were certainly at this time an obsolete 
and degenerating form. 
b. The variety with the animal-head separated from the bow 
by a facetted stem is in Western Norway får from being the most 
numerous sort of the 
eruciform brooches and 
consequently in no way 
so important as in the 
Eastern parts of the 
Peninsula, though they 
are certainly better re- 
presented than the tirst 
series. 
In the me fig. 
eowimeh has the 
side-knobs fixed upon 
the axis of the spring- 
eoiland where the catch- 
plate of the pin is of the 
same length as the foot, 
we see already the pro- 
portions not a little 
different from the ori- 
ginal form of the type, 
and we especially note 
the inclination to å broa- 
der shape and an extreme sharpness of the facets, which is cha- 
racteristic of so many of the later brooches in Western Norway. 
Owing to the corrosion of the bronze the details are not quite 
distinct, especially respecting the animal-head of the foot. It is 
certain, though, that punched or incised ornaments are totally wanting. 
1) Horr, Haa pgd. Jæderen. B. 4834. Ab. 1881, p. 144. 
