1906] The erueiform brooches of Norway. 109 
ornament close to the end of the foot, in which is set å cut garnet. 
Both these features whieh are never seen in the earlier brooches, 
at least not in specimens of bronze, must be regarded as an imitation 
of the contemporary large 
brooches with a square 
upper plate which are 
regularly giltand decorated 
with animal patterns, and 
wlich are also often or- 
namented with carnets; . - 
thus we see in the brooch : 
fig. 131 fairly indieated [ ? 
the beginning assimilation = 
of the erueiform brooches V,5 4 
with this type. | Å 
The brooch fig. 1323), 
also thickly gilt and pro- 
vided with nine projecting 
ornaments in which are 
set glas pastes, now much 
decayed, shows in all parts 
a further decomposition, 
of the type. though the 
head with its three ter- 
minations may be easily 
recognized and even the 
shape of the foot which 
is here so utterly deprived 
of all organie composition, 
is understood by comparing 
it with forms as figs. 126 
and 127 above. But cer- 
tainly, very little is left 
of the character properly 
belonging to the cruciform brooches. As the final stage in this 
series I record here å specimen (fig. 133)*) whose head-plate and 
1) Sleaford, Lincolnshire; Brit. Mus. GEORGE WILLIAM THOMAS: On ex- 
cavations in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Archaeologia, 
vol. L, p. 383 ss. pl. XXXII, fig. I. 
2) Kenninghall, Norfolk. Brit. Mus. From SaLIN: Thierornamentik, p. 72, 
fig. 157. 
