74 



Haakon Schetelig. 



[No. 8 



may be seen already in the last two specimens mentioned above 

 (figs. 91 and 92); a simpler and more tasteful termination of the 

 head than usual is found in fig. 93. ') 



As seen from the figures, all the parts of these brooehes have 

 become muen transformed, but the workmanship is good and the 

 details are sharply and precisely executed; we cannot vet in this 

 stage of the development call them degenerated forms, though they 

 have diverged from the original form of the type in a degree sur- 

 passed only by the latest varieties of the English development. As 

 the most characteristic feature of the advanced stage of development 



of this series may 

 be noted the exag- 

 gerated moulding, 

 the sharpness of 

 all parts of the 

 form, the total want 

 of ornaments, and 

 the large dimen- 

 sio-ns which are 

 common to nearly 

 all the specimens 

 of this sort. Nearly 

 ahvays the head- 

 plate has a higher 

 micldle part, and 

 the bow is very 

 short. 



As I have just 

 mentioned, I think 

 these brooehes can- 

 not be regarded as 

 degenerated forms as long as none of the original elements of the 

 form have been effaced, but the final degeneration is not far away 

 as none of these elements have here preserved any practical meaning, 

 and the further ornamental additions soon led to the dissolution of 

 the type. In this respect an alteration of the form of the knobs 

 is very illustrating ; they are in many cases replaced by what seems 

 to be at first imitations of the small animal-heads placed at the end 



Fig. 



J ) Skeie, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B. 4226 a. Ab. 1883, p. 



