An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 294.—Bronze torque. Lochar Moss, Dumfries, Scotland. (Diam. 6^ in.) other is rectangrular in section. The beads, fourteen innumber, each measures about an inch in diameter, and areribbed and grooved horizontally. Between every two beadsis a small flat one shaped like the wheel of a pulley. Theywere apparently strung on a metal wire. The rectangularportion which no doubt lay on the back of the nc;ck is ^ ArchcEoIogia, xvi., p. 137, Plate X. LATE KELTIC ART 287 smooth on the inside, but on its upper surface there isa characteristic grraceful
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 294.—Bronze torque. Lochar Moss, Dumfries, Scotland. (Diam. 6^ in.) other is rectangrular in section. The beads, fourteen innumber, each measures about an inch in diameter, and areribbed and grooved horizontally. Between every two beadsis a small flat one shaped like the wheel of a pulley. Theywere apparently strung on a metal wire. The rectangularportion which no doubt lay on the back of the nc;ck is ^ ArchcEoIogia, xvi., p. 137, Plate X. LATE KELTIC ART 287 smooth on the inside, but on its upper surface there isa characteristic grraceful scroll desion. On the outer sur-face are enofraved waved lines in imitation, it has beensua-oested, of a cord, a reminiscence of the strino- with &t>. Fig. 295.—Part of a bronze diadem. which the older necklace of shale or jet was secured.^ Of/ro7z Torques the most singular specimen was in the find atPolden Hills, Somerset. It is made of an iron ring roundwhich are twisted five pieces of bronze wire. Several 1 Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, i., p. 141, Plate IX. 2 Archceologia, xiv., p. 93, Plate XIX, Fig. 6. 288 PREHISTORIC ART other iron torques have been found, notably one on theneck of a skeleton at Arras in Yorkshire, but it has noartistic interest. A Bronze Diadem.—Two bronze fragments, the useof which is not apparent and whose source is unknown,now in the National Museum at Dublin, have attractedattention on account of their workmanship, and the designswith which they are ornamented. They were noticed andhighly praised by J. M. Kemble fifty years ago. The morecomplete of the two pieces consists of three parts, a fillet orband of bronze, slightly curved, if inches high, a circularplate attached behind to the fille
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