and are believed to have been circulated 

 in the interest of the Iceni, a tribe which 

 distinguished itself above all others by its 

 resolute resistance to the Roman troops. 



The head and front of the power of resist- 

 ance displayed by the Iceni lay in their 

 skilful employment of the war-chariot as a 

 means of attack — in other words, in the 

 efficiency of their powerful and disciplined 

 horses. There was no agriculture among 

 these people, and the importance of the 

 horse which led to the adoption of its 

 figure as a numismatic device was due to 

 the part it played in war. Now these 

 quaintly archaic designs must not be com- 

 pared with the works of art by which 

 Greek and Roman civilisation was made 

 famous, and laughed aside as contemptible. 

 The true standard of comparison is found 

 in the rude figures in rock inscriptions, and 

 in the ornamentation on the weapons and 

 tools of what we now call savage races. 

 Measured by this standard these designs 

 boast merit, for the artist has succeeded 

 in conveying an impression of the character 

 of his ideal horse. His ideal was clearly 

 one of deep-carcasecl, wide-buttocked breed, 

 with profuse mane and tail ; a horse, in fact, 

 which possessed some of the prominent 



