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complicated moulding; the high er middle part of the head-plate is 

 strøngly developed; the bow is short and steep. As it is not seen 

 in the figure, I especially reraark that the piirs catch-plate reaches 

 from the end of the bow to the neck of the animal-head. The 

 underside of the brooch is concave. 



The later brooches belonging to this series can only illustrate 

 the dissolution and the degeneration of the form. They are mostly 

 small specimens of bad proportions and carelessly executed; the 



Fig. 79. V 



form is getting flat and the facets are losing their sharpness, which 

 is all seen in figs. 81 — 83. *) It is a curious fact that such 

 declining variations of this series are contemporary with the largest 

 and most remarkable specimens of the numerous series described in 



x ) Fig. 81: Bongve, Haus pgd. Nordhordland. B. 439. Lokange: N. Olds. 

 i B. M. p. 90. — Fig. 82: Western Norway. Locality unknown. In Bergen 

 Museum. — Fig. 83: Dragsvold, Vossestranden, Voss. B. 4353. Ab. 1885, p. 85. 



