1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 79 
We return to the development of this series in Western Nor- 
way. In some cases the flat part of the foot is not provided with 
lower wings such as we have seen in all the former brooches of 
this series, but the flat part is itself made broader, thus forming åa 
flat, rectangular plate, broader than both the end of the bow and 
the neck of the animal-head (tig. 97).') It is possible, though not 
certain, that this form which we have already met with in å few 
Fig. 94, ae 
broocehes of the Eastern district (for instance figs. 45 and 46) may be 
explained as åa simplification of the form treated above (figs. 90 — 
96). This explanation is at least typologically very probable and 
the two forms may be regarded as closely related to each other. 
The flat plate of the foot appears in varying forms; in the frag- 
1) Bø, Haa pgd. Jæderen. C. 7530. Ab. 1875, p. 88, no. 112. 
