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noteworthy development in Scandinavia, it is not possible to put 
together a typological series showing the successive transformations 
of it. In fact, it presents rather å number of different combinations 
than what might be called å development of the form, with exception 
of the eradual effacing of the splits in the edge of the foot-plate 
already mentioned. The form of the bow is not constant, as the 
top-plate is often missing, and the bow has then got the common 
facetted form (see fig. 62 and fig. 108;)) the bow of the last men- 
tioned has, however, varied in a very peculiar way, known only 
from two brooches of the series here in question; they are of a 
late date (compare fig. 181 below). -In other specimens the bow 
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Fig. 103. 11. Fig. 104. %,. 
is flat and its surface ornamented with three parallel ribbons, aå 
form sometimes observed in the cruciform brooches, but probably 
originally belonging to another type (Rven fig. 557—560); a speci- 
men of this sort is given fig. 109. 'The bow is here of aå very 
simple execution. 
This branch of the cruciform brooches seems to have degene- 
1) Lunde, Vanse pgd. Lister. B. 4234. Ab. 1883, s. 76. 
?) Fig. 109 and 110 are both from Vestly, Lye pgd. Jæderen. B. 2532 
and 2531. LorancGE: N. Olds. i B. M. p. 96. — In the last of them is seen an 
interesting combination with the form of the foot from late West-Norwegian 
brooches. 
