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The relatively advanced transformation of the general shape of this 
brooeh is å striking feature when seen in combination with the very 
original arrangement of the constructive parts of it — the side-knobs 
and the cateh-plate of the pin — and the same peculiarity is observed 
also in the following two brooches, figs. 78 and 79,5 though the 
transformation here is somewhat different from fig. 77. Typologieally 
they are referred to a later stage by having the side-knobs cast 
in one piece with the rest of the brooch, but in both of them all 
the knobs have preserved the full roundness, and the cateh-plate of 
the pin is as long as the foot. In relation to other Norwegian broo- 
1. Fig. Å. TE 
ches they are no doubt to be regarded as earlier than the middle 
stage of the development; the details of the form are, however, more 
different from the original type than I have seen in any instance 
of the corresponding forms in the Eastern territory. 
I am fully aware of the risk by inferring from a few brog 
of this sort åa more general rule of development, but from the. 
number of such cases in Western Norway — and more of them 
1) Fig. 78: Western Norway. Locality unknown. B.5681a. B.M. Aarb. 
1904, no. 6, p. 55. — Fig. 79: Obrestad, Haa pgd. Jæderen. B. 43440. Ab. 
1885, p. 83. 
