110 



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knobs have grown together into one square plate, where typological 

 rudiments of the knobs are found only in the ornamentation. But 



even ' in this late stage of 

 degeneration the type has 

 preserved many charaeteristic 

 details, such as the higher 

 middle part of the head-plate 

 and the little flat plate of 

 the foot connecting the bow 

 with the neck of the animal- 

 head. — Such late brooches 

 as flgs. 131 — 133 probably 

 belong to the latter half of 

 the 6te cent. 



Dr. Hildebrand has 

 already suggested that many 

 of the English brooches are 

 typologically later than all 

 known in Scandinavia, from 

 which he concluded that the 

 original home of this form 

 is not in England but some- 

 where in the Northern coun- 

 tries, and I have found this 

 opinion contirmed by the 

 larger and better material 

 now at hand. 1 ) He also 

 mentioned the possibility of 

 making out especially close 

 connexions between the Eng- 

 lish and Danish brooches, a 

 presumption being, in my 

 opinion, evidently proved by 

 the existing material, though 

 I think that the other part of his conclusion — that such brooches 

 are rare in Denmark because the population here had emigrated 



Fig. 131. 1 



lv 



2 ) Dr. Hans Hildebrand in ,,Antiquarisk tidskrift for Sverige'', IV, p. 

 209 — 210. The same question was treated by dr. TJndset (Aarbøger f. nord. Oldk. 

 Copeiihagen, 1880, p. 131) with whom, however, I cannot agree, as he supposed 

 that the cruciform broocbes were first introduced in Norway from England. 



