106 Haakon Schetelig. [No. 8 
shaped like a flat plate. Thus the late English development is in 
full contrast to the taste for åa sharp and exaggerated moulding 
which marks the late brooches in Western Norway, and it seems 
| ; that the ruling ten- 
dencies in the two 
countries were too 
different to allow of 
any further exchange 
of forms, though it 
must be supposed 
that the intercourse 
indicated by such 
brooches as fig. 124 
continued to exist 
even afterwards, 
which is also sug- 
gested by the trans- 
ferring of å later 
type from Scandi- 
navia to England. 
In the increasing 
dimensions of the 
head-plate we trace 
the same inclination 
for broad and flat 
forms. The knobs 
are now generally 
cast in one piece 
with the brooch, fig. 
125 being one of 
the latest specimens 
where the side-knobs 
are fixed upon the 
axis of the spring- 
coil, and the begin- 
Pio MEG ning degeneration of 
the knobs is indi- 
cated by their gradual diminution (especially characteristic in this 
respect is the specimen figured by Nævirrg, pl. 8, no. 116). But 
the knobs had still to go through å last stage of development in 
