74 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
may be seen already in the last two specimens mentioned above 
(figs. 91 and 92); å simpler and more tasteful termination of the 
head than usual is found in fig. 93.) 
As seen from the figures, all the parts of these brooches have 
become much transformed, but the workmanship is good and the 
details are sharply and precisely executed; we cannot yet in this 
stage of the development call them degenerated forms, though they 
have diverged from the original form of the type in å degree sur- 
passed only by the latest varieties of the English development. As 
the most characteristic feature of the advanced stage of development 
of this series may 
be noted the exag- 
verated moulding, 
the sharpness of 
all parts of the 
form, the total want 
of ornaments, and. 
the large dimen- 
slons which are 
common to nearly 
all the specimens 
of this sort. Nearly 
always the head- 
plate has a higher 
middle part, and 
the bow is very 
short. 
As I have just 
mentioned, I think 
Fig. 89. 1. these brooches can- 
4 not be regarded as 
degenerated forms as long as none of the original elements of the 
form have been effaced, but the final degeneration is not far away 
as none of these elements have here preserved any practical meaning, 
and the further ornamental additions soon led to the dissolution of 
the type. In this respect an alteration of the form of the knobs 
is very illustrating; they are in many cases replaced by what seems 
to be at first imitations of the small animal-heads placed at the end 
1) Skeie, Klep pgd. Jæderen. B. 49226a. Ab. 1883, p. 68. 
