Archaeologia cantiana . nd Brompton Barrier,by a party of soldiers throwing up a battery. Itweighs no less than 22 oz. 4 dwts. An engraving ofit is given in the Archa3ological Journal, vol. xxx.,p. 97, and some notion of it may be conveyed to ourreaders, by describing it as somewhat like figure 2 in ourPlate A, only it is much larger in every respect, andthe spiral lines are closer and deeper; its total lengthis 12^ inches, its diameter varies from ^ to -r^ths ofan inch, the larger end shewing that it had beenbroken by its owner; and its form suggests that itmay have been of two or three coils
Archaeologia cantiana . nd Brompton Barrier,by a party of soldiers throwing up a battery. Itweighs no less than 22 oz. 4 dwts. An engraving ofit is given in the Archa3ological Journal, vol. xxx.,p. 97, and some notion of it may be conveyed to ourreaders, by describing it as somewhat like figure 2 in ourPlate A, only it is much larger in every respect, andthe spiral lines are closer and deeper; its total lengthis 12^ inches, its diameter varies from ^ to -r^ths ofan inch, the larger end shewing that it had beenbroken by its owner; and its form suggests that itmay have been of two or three coils. I am indebtedto Colonel Gallwey, Commandant of the School ofMilitary Engineering, and to Captain Clayton, ,for an inspection of this valuable ornament before itwas sent to Her Majesty, who has since presented itto the British Museum. The fragment from Gilling-ham is in the possession of Mr. Ball. From the peculiar twisted characters of many ofthese ornaments, the word torques is legitimately used; PLATE A. Fis. GOID TOKQUES AND ABMILLA, DISCOVEEED IN KENT. (/n the possession of the Kent Archceological Society.) I DISCOVERED IN KENT. 6 but it has been also applied in a wide sense to such asare not twisted, and irrespectively of size and character—whether destined for the neck, the arm, or thewaist. Some are so large that they could only havebeen worn tightly round the loins. Of these the Bathurst Deane has given examples in the Archseo-logia of the Society of Antiquaries of London,vol. xxvii., from a hoard discovered near Quentinin Brittany; but though, for convenience, they are allspoken of as torques, they are, as Mr. Deane remarks,rather of the kind described by Greek writers asfiavcuKat, a word which they employ when speaking ofthe collars and bracelets of the Gauls. One of thesecollars weighed upwards of 4 lbs., and its intrinsicvalue was about £209. Several weighed over onepound five ounces, and seemed to have been adjustedto a certain weight, as, indee
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