1906] i The eruciform brooches of Norway. Frå 
country, and it is not impossible, I think, that somewhat similar 
eonnexions may have taken place during the prehistoric periods."') 
d. The brooches with the foot consisting of å square plate 
separating the amimal-head from the end of the bow are in Western 
Norway more numerous than all other varieties and certainly the 
most characteristic form of this district. As we have already seen, 
it 18 very rare in the Kastern parts of the Peninsula, and in Den- 
mark it is known only from åa few late specimens; in England it 
is rather common, especially 
among the later brooches. 
But the real home of this 
form is the West coast of 
Norway, where it is found 
in all stages of development 
and partly in excellent spe- 
eimens. As this variety in 
all probability did not appear 
till after the development 
had taken a separate direc- 
tion in the different parts 
of the Northern district, we 
find here the explanation 
why it has been chiefly con- 
fined to a smaller district 
than most of the others. The 
very earliest specimen I have 
seen of this sort, is at all 
events the brooch given here 
as fis. 86,7) where the plate 
Is only a little broader than 
the bow, with its edges sharpened so as to be inserted into small 
grooves in the knobs; it is thus an early specimen of the Norwegian 
development, but the proportions and the form as å whole already 
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1) From my observations respecting this variety I should be tempted to 
suggest that it was brought from Jutland to the districts in Western Norway 
through immigration of a Jutish tribe. The supposed immigration must then have 
taken place at the beginning of the 6th cent. The material seems, - however, 
not yet sufficient to make reliable conclusi ons of this sort. 
*) Reve, Klep pgd., Jæderen. Stavanger Museum, no. 2830. 
