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shaped like a flat plate. Tims the late English development is in 

 full contrast to the taste for a sharp and exaggerated moulding 

 which marks the late brooches in Western Norway, and it seems 



that the ruling ten- 

 dencies in the two 

 countries were too 

 different to allow of 

 any f urther exchange 

 of forms, though it 

 must be supposed 

 that the intercourse 

 indieated by such 

 brooches as fig. 124 

 continued to exist 

 even afterwards* 

 which is also sug- 

 gested by the trans- 

 ferring of a later 

 type from Seandi- 

 navia to England. 



In the increasing 

 dimensions of the 

 head-plate we trace 

 the same inclination 

 for broad and flat 

 forms. The knobs 

 are now generally 

 east in one piece 

 with the brooch, fig. 

 125 being one of 

 the latest specimens 

 where the side-knobs 

 are fixed up on the 

 axis of the spring- 

 coil, and the begin- 

 ning degeneration of 

 the knobs is indi- 

 eated by their gradual diminution (especially characteristic in this 

 respect is the specimen figured by Neville, pl. 8, no. 116). But 

 the knobs had still to go through a last stage of development in 



Fig. 127. 



