892 | Haakon, Schetelig. [No. 8 
times been replaced by a flat plate without any details recalling its 
former figure. 
Such small and simple brooches afford an illustrating example 
of a rule often referred to in this 
paper, that during a typological de- 
velopment the large and fine speecimens 
are in å high degree subject to the 
alterations required by taste and fashion, 
while the small specimens, regarded 
merely as implements, were made with- 
out any consideration to the elegant 
and modern form, although they cer- 
tainly belong to the common type of 
the time. The striking difference be- 
tween the fine and the cheap brooehes 
is best seen where we compare two 
brooches such as fig. 91 and fig. 100; 
in both of them all the elements of 
the form are the same, but in the one 
they are seen in the highest degree 
of development, while the other re- 
presents the greatest degeneration 
AG possible. 
ER A similar opposition is found by 
er comparing the two following brooches, 
figs. 102 and 1083.*) 
These two brooches also in an- 
other respect attract our interest, as 
the flat part of the foot here has got 
a rare and remarkable form which we 
have seen in none of the brooches 
pg treated above. Probably it is å hybrid 
ETE form.”) It is surprising that the best 
i speeimens of this sort are found in 
Eastern Norway and I am not able to explain why it should be 
so. But as the form of the upper part of these brooches and also 
VL 
1) Fig. 102: Fen, Stokke pgd. Jarlsberg. OC. 20154a. Ab. 1902, p. 339, 
no. 154, fig. 5. — Fig. 108: Kvasseim, Egersund pgd. Jæderen. Stavanger 
Museum, 949. 
*) Compare RyeH fig. 254. SALIN: Thierornamentik p. 68, figs. 146—149, 
though these specimens are later than the cruciform brooches before us. 
