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34 ornaments found on the estate of Lord Prudhoe at Stanwick, and the phaleræ and weapons discovered on the Poklen Hills.

A very singular penannular beaded torques, presenting in some respects a vertebrated appearance, found at Worms, is figured in the handbook of Wagener.

Another penannular object of the same class, found in the German graves at Ranis, exhibits a series of beads gradually larger towards the opening.

I shall class with these torcs the one discovered at Perdeswell, near Worcester, described by Mr. Jabez Allies, It consisted of twenty bronze pulley-shaped beads, each alternating with a curiously twisted and tooled bead, the two exactly resembling the vertebra of an animal, and the whole like the spine of an animal or fish: this necklace was probably copied from one made of strung vertebræ. Considerable light on the nature of the Worcestershire torc was afforded by the drawing of another discovered in Lancashire in 1831. It will be remembered that the other half of the Rochdale torques is a square band with a kind of vandyked ornament; this other half represents the cord, and passed behind the neck. Some such cord, or