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evident that the maker of this and of similar brooches has tried 
to give fresh interest to an obsolete form by introdueing å strange 
head as å more modern element in the decoration.") The puzzling 
appearance: of this new element I think, at least in some degree, 
explained by the brooches described in the next series. 
FR hnk it eonvemens to treat here å very rare variety, 
which is always combined with the form of the animal-head just 
mentioned, and which is only found within the small district, 
the present diocese of Bergen. The foot here consists of a broad 
plate, projecting on both sides of the end of the bow and getting 
farther down the same dimension as the meck of the anmimal-head. 
The few brooches of this 
sort known from Norway are 
all late specimens, as is 
clearly seen from the one 
figsured here, fig. 84;”) ap- 
parently it is not badly 
formed, but on closer inspec- 
tion it will be found that 
the original proportions are 
not a little corrupted, that 
the plate is not sloping in 
relation to the line of the 
foot (which is of some weight 
being å common feature of 
all the Norwegian brooches 
of this series), further that 
the catch-plate is very short, and that the underside is very 
concave. Ås the animal-head is very like the same part of the 
brooch fig. 83, it also seems probable that the two brooches are 
not very different of age, or at least that both of them belong to 
a late stage of the development, though the animal-head of fig. 83 is, 
typologically, the later of them. 
The Norwegian brooches of the form fig. 84 are thus in dif- 
ferent respects a rather surprising feature, as one should expect 
1) Such typological instances have often been observed, compare the re- 
marks of dr. HILDEBRAND in Månadsblad 1876, p. 216. 
?) Mo, Førde pgd. Søndfjord. B. 2828. Lorancz: N. Olds.i B. M. p. 101. 
