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the two following flgures (129, 130) ] ) of which especially the latter 

 has in a marked degree obtained the broad and flat shape so cha- 

 racteristic of the late English brooches. We get a good idea of 

 the contrast between the late varieties in Norway and in England 

 by comparing the last of these brooches (fig. 130) with one of the 

 latest specimens from Norway as for instance fig. 95; it must be re- 

 membered, however, that the English brooch probably is the later 

 of these two, although the difference in time cannot be great. 



Thus we have reached the 

 time where the cruciform broo- 

 ches disappeared in Scandinavia, 

 but in England their history 

 was not yet finished. It was 

 suggested above that in Scan- 

 dinavia the cruciform brooches 

 got out of use because they 

 were not well fit for a de- 

 coration with animal-ornaments 

 in relief so predominant in the 

 style of the latter half of the 

 6th cent. The broad and flat 

 English brooches, on the other 

 hand, were especially adapted 

 to such a decoration and conse- 

 quently continued until nearly 

 everything of the special cha- 

 racter of the form had been 

 effaced by the ornaments. A 

 first step in this direction is 

 observed in the brooch fig. 13 1 2 ) 

 where the terminal plate of the 

 foot and the three terminations 

 of the head are ornamented with animal-heads of the same form 

 as the heads which had already at an earlier stage of development 

 replaced the side-wings of the upper part of the foot. An innovation 

 of no less importance is the gilt surface and the square projecting 



Fig-. 129. 



x ) 129: Woodstone, Hunts. Brit. Mus. From a sketch by the author. — 

 Fig. 130: Wildbraham, Camhs. Neville, pl. 2, no. 81. 



2 ) Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Brit. Mus. From a photograph. See note to 

 fig. 132. 



