A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



different shapes (one convex and the other concave) strung alternately on 

 a piece of iron of square cross section, so as to prevent the beads from 



revolving. The remaining segment 

 consists of a bronze tube of rectangular 

 cross section ornamented with the 

 Late Celtic design.' ^ 



The tw^o halves of this necklet 

 are dow^elled together with iron pins, 

 fixing an iron tooth at each end which 

 fits into an appropriate socket in the 

 other half. It weighs about 5 oz. 

 and is about 4 in. in diameter. It 

 is a splendid specimen. 



A torque of three beads, the ma- 

 terial bronze and of Late Celtic fabric, 

 was exhibited by the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Historic Society in their 

 collection now placed in the Liverpool 

 Museum. Unfortunately much local 

 archasology is lost together with the 

 descriptive papers of the Society.* 

 From Liverpool also comes a bronze coin of British workmanship. The 

 description ' is as follows : — Obv. Two boars back to back ; beneath each an 

 amulet ; in the centre behind them a wheel with a line carried on between their 

 backs. Rev. A horse to the right above, and below uncertain objects. The cha- 

 racter of the coin is allied to those which may be assigned to the Icenian district. 

 Naturally the list of the Late Celtic remains is longer than is here 

 represented. But the history of Late Celtic art in the county is interwoven 

 with the Roman occupation, and later also the Anglo-Saxon period ; hence 

 the description of further remains of these dates, though Celtic in original 

 motive, may be sought in the special sections dealing with those periods. 



Fig. 32. — Bronze Beaded Torque from Mow 

 Road (Rochdale). Scale, I : 2. 



V. CANOES 



There remains an interesting series of wooden canoes or boats, among 

 other miscellaneous remains, 

 which cannot be ascribed in 

 the present state of know- 

 ledge to any particular place 

 in the history of Early Man. 

 There is little or nothing in 

 these objects intrinsically 

 whereby to date them : some 

 of them may indeed have 

 been fashioned after the com- 

 ing of the Anglo-Saxons ; 

 hence evidence derived from t. -u? ta <- t> i ,. 



riG. 33. — Wooden Dug-out Canoe from Barton-upon-Irwell. 

 the Circumstances of the dis- (Manchester Museum, Owens College. I : 96.) 



1 Romilly Allen, Celtic Art, p. 1 1 1, w. photo to face p. 110. 



' Hist. Sx. Latu. and Chs. xxxi. 1 1 7, pi. lii. 8 Sir John Evans, Ancient British Coins, p. I 20, with fig. 



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