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indicate the special features characteristic of the separate form of 
the Peninsula. (Consequently, with the earliest appearance of this 
variation of the foot we have left the stage of development ecmmon 
to all the Northern countries, and I am inelined to think that where 
later brooches of this sort appear outside Western Norway it must 
be explained through influence from that part; this is at least å fact 
respecting specimens found in other parts of the Peninsula. 
The special form of the foot seen in this brooch (fig. 86) is 
no doubt closely related to the form represented in fig. 41 as 
the difference between them 
chietly consits in the thick 
neck of the animal-head 
which is a constant feature 
in the West-Norwegian broo- 
ches of this sort. It is also 
by the thick neck of the 
animal-head that the little 
flat space of the foot is 
marked as å distinet part of 
it and prepared for further 
development. It must be 
remarked that the special 
shape of the neck of the 
animal-head seen here (in 
fig. 86), which is certainly 
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this detail, is only found in 
Western Norway where it 
is preserved also in, some 
Pie, 87. 1 later specimens (so in fig. 
87), but it is generally 
changed into å moulded ribbon placed across the foot between the 
animal-head and the flat space. Commonly this ribbon is quite 
narrow (tig. 88)*) and very like the same detail in many other 
varieties; in some instances it is broader and very like the shape of 
the neck of the animal-head first mentioned, as seen in fig. 89,3) å 
1) Varhaug, Haa pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum no. 1559. 
2) Maandalen (?) Romsdalen. B. 5102. Ab. 1894, p. 172. 
3) Varhaug, Haa pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger Museum no. 1460. 
the most original form of 
