1906] 



The cruoifovm brooches of Norway. 



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England. In the specimen fig - . 128 1 ) the knobs are provided with 

 flat projections whose origin may probably be found in the circum- 

 stance that in some cases the axis of the spring-coil projected 

 somewhat from the top of the side-knobs, and this peculiarity is 

 also in some instances imitated when the knobs were east in one 

 piece with the brooch (as seen in the iigure Neville, pl. 8, no. 116). 



Fio-. 128. 



And when once formed, such flat projections were only in too good 

 accordance with the Anglo-Saxon taste not to be enlarged at the 

 expence of the moulded knobs. Stages of this process are seen in 



J ) Soham, Camb*. Brit. Mus. From a sketch by the autbor. 



