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the two following figures (129, 130)*) of which especially the latter 
has in å marked degree obtained the broad and flat shape so cha- 
racteristic of the late Enoelish brooches. We get å 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 erueiform broo- 
ches disappeared in Scandinavia, 
but in England their history 
was not yet finished. It was 
suggested above that in Scan- 
dinavia the eruciform brooehes 
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 
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. 131%) 
Fig. 1929. 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 
1 129: Woodstone, Hunts. Brit. Mus. From a sketch by the author. — 
Fig. 180: Wildbraham, Cambs. NEVILLE, pl. 2, no. 81. 
2) Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Brit. Mus. From a photograph. See note to 
fig. 132. 
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to such å decoration and conse- 
