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complicated moulding; the higher middle part of the head-plate is 
strongly developed; the bow is short and steep. As it is not seen 
in the figure, I especially remark that the pin's catch-plate reaches 
from the end of the bow to the neck of-the animal-head. The 
underside of the brooch is coneave. 
The later brooches belonging to this series can only illustrate 
the dissolution and the degeneration of the form. They are mostly 
small specimens of bad proportions and carelessly executed; the 
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form is getting flat and the facets are losing their sharpness, which 
is all seen in figs. 81—883.1) It is a curious fact thatfeuen 
declining variations of this series are contemporary with the largest 
and most remarkable specimens of the numerous series described in 
1) Fig. 81: Rongve, Haus pgd. Nordhordland. B. 439. LoraneGE: N. Olds. 
i B.M.p. 90. — Fig. 82: Western Norway. Locality unknown. In Bergen 
Museum. — Fig. 83: Dragsvold, Vossestranden, Voss. B. 48353. Ab. 1885, p. 85. 
