1906] The eruciform brooches of Norway. 89 
f. The brooches whose foot ends in a triangular plate have also 
been mentioned in the description of erueiform brooches from the 
Eastern part of the Peninsula; they have, at least in some degree, 
got different forms within each of the two distriets. But respecting 
these brooches it is still more diffieult than it was in the preceding 
series to make out the successive stages of the development. Most of 
the known specimens have little in common with each other except 
the peculiar form of the foot. In fact this triangular termination 
seems to have been 
combined with dif- 
ferent variations of 
the erueiform broo- 
ches, and as it did 
not in other re- 
spects infiuence the 
shape of the broo- 
ches it did not pro- 
duce åa new and 
distinet variety of 
the type.') Only 
in one instance is 
the flat triangular 
foot found in a fixed 
combination with å 
constant form of 
the brooch, namely 
in the late broo- 
ches of the variety 
most characteristic 
of WesternNorway, 
asseenin fig. 111.) 
In every respect is 
this brooch quite identical with the late brooches represented by 
figs. 91—95, the only difference being that the animal-head of the 
foot is replaced by the flat, triangular plate. This form is known 
from many specimens, all of them of exactly the same form, å 
feature which is also characteristic of the West-Norwegian brooches 
1) See figs. 65 and 66 above. SALIN: Thierornamentik p. 73, fig. 159. 
2) Skeie, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B.49226b. Ab. 1883, p. 68, no. 47. Com- 
pare RyeH fig. 253. 
