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The crucifovm brooclies of Norway. 



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the plate, and the way in which the side-knobs are tixed to the 

 brooch. It should be observed in the first place that all the broo- 

 ches, figs. 116 — 119, have the side knobs tixed upon the axis of 

 the spring-coil, which is also the case with the contemporary broo- 

 ches of Denmark while corresponding specimens from Norway and 

 Sweden generally have the side-knobs east in one piece with the 

 brooch. Regarding the way in which the knobs are connected with 

 the plate we find again the same variations which have been already 

 noticed in the first part of this paper. In the specimen fig. 116 

 the plate has lower edges, probably 

 sharpened in order to be inserted into 

 grooves in the bases of the side-knobs ; 

 in fig. 117 the plate is bent for the 

 same purpose and consequently has the 

 underside concave. a peculiarity also 

 known in Denmark, but not in the 

 Scandinavian Peninsula; in fig. 118 the 

 bases of the knobs are provided with 

 cylindrical projections which have been 

 split so as to hold the edges of the 

 plate; in fig. 119 the plate has a higher 

 middle part of the same form as already 

 seen in brooches from Sleswick-Holstein 

 (Mestoef: Alterth timer fig. 593). But 

 in one respect these English brooches 

 diverge from the Scandinavian forms; 

 they have a larger plate than is ever 

 seen in the corresponding stages of de- 

 velopment in Scandinavia and thus al- 

 ready indicate the Anglo-Saxon incli- 

 nation to broad and flat forms of the 



ornaments, which in a high degree marks the later cruciform broo- 

 ches of England. 



The tendency to enlarge the size of the plate is fairly expressed 

 in the two brooches figs. 120— 121. J ) In the first of them the 

 underside of the plate is concave in the same manner as noted in 

 fig. 117, and the brooch is also remarkable for the polyedrous form 



Fio-. 122. 



a ) Fig. 120: Rudstone, East Riding, Yorksh. Brit. Mus. From a photograph. 

 Fig. 121: StoAV Heath, Suffolk. Brit. Mus. From a sketch by the author. 



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