1906] The ceruciform brooches of Norway. 15: 
Ås å supplement to what was said about occassional influences 
from Norway upon the brooches in England, I mention here å 
Norwegian find of great interest. The brooch tig. 134) was found 
together with two other brooches of which the one, only a frag- 
ment of which is preserved, shows the late typical form of the 
bow as fis. 91 and 92; the other is of å narrower shape but cer- 
tainly also of Norwegian origin and contemporary with the first 
mentioned. The brooch illustrated here is of quite åa different cha- 
racter, all parts of it being distinet from the other varieties found 
in Norway, and on the other hand being most closely allied to the 
common forms of England. 'Thus the head-plate is unusually large, 
the - side-wings of it are 
bent a little downwards, 
producing å corresponding 
cavity of the underside, 
and the side-knobs are 
fixed upon the axis of the 
spring-coil; the bow is 
longer and less raised than 
in Norwegian brooches 
and the foot with the short 
facetted stem and the small 
serolls at the nose of the 
animal-head is also shaped 
absolutely in the manner 
characteristic of the middle 
English varieties. The 
differences from the normal 
forms of Norway are so Fig. 134. 14. 
sreat and the accordance 
with English brooches is so complete, that this brooch must have 
been made in England and accidentally imported to Western Nor- 
way, as å Norwegian workman, even when copying an English 
model, would not have failed to introduce some features peculiar 
to the brooches current in his own country, and moreover, if such 
imitations of English brooches had actually taken place, we should 
expect to find more traces of them than this unique specimen. But 
1) Maage, Ullensvang pgd. Hardanger. B. 5733. B. M. Aarb. 1908, no. 3, 
p- 10 (1902: 55). 
