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 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. 248