The collar must have had a joint of some kind, which is now missing; and the fastening is a most peculiar one, consisting of a =T=-shaped projection on the end, one-half of the tubular ring fitting into a slot in the end of the other half of the ring. The locking is effected by giving the slotted end a half turn after the =T=-shaped projection has been inserted. The whole of the exterior surface of the tube is decorated with long sweeping curves, narrow in the middle and with trumpet-shaped expansions at each end, combined with helixes resembling a snail-shell. The background is shaded with a sort of engine-turned pattern of fine lines drawn with a pair of compasses. This remarkable gold collar has been fully described and illustrated by Dr. Arthur Evans in the _Archæologia_ (vol. lv., p. 397), and the facts relating to its discovery are related in detail by Mr. R. Cochrane, F.S.A., in a paper in the _Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland_ (vol. xxxiii., p. 211). An account of the evidence given by Mr. C. H. Read, F.S.A., before the committee appointed to inquire into the respective rights of the British Museum and the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy at Dublin to the possession of the hoard of gold ornaments will be found in the report of the inquiry in the Blue Book issued in 1899. [Illustration: BRONZE BEADED TORQUE, FROM MOWROAD, NEAR ROCHDALE, LANCASHIRE SCALE ¾ LINEAR] [Illustration: BRONZE COLLAR FROM WRAXHALL, SOMERSETSHIRE; NOW IN THE BRISTOL MUSEUM] A second collar of gold now in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, said to have come from Clonmacnois, King’s Co., is illustrated in Sir W. Wilde’s _Catalogue of Antiquities of Gold in Museum R.I.A._, p. 47. It consists of a plain hollow ring 5½ inches in diameter with an ornamental bulb on each side, one of which seems to be made in imitation of one of the glass beads of the period. The Bristol Museum possesses a perfect flat-jointed bronze collar, of a different kind from any of those just described, from Wraxhall,[212] Somerset, and a portion of another from Llandyssyl,[213] Cardiganshire. In the British Museum there are two similar collars, one from Trenoweth,[214] Cornwall, and the other from the Isle of Portland,[215] Dorsetshire. The Edinburgh Museum has also an exceedingly good example from Stitchell,[216] Roxburghshire. All these collars are elaborately ornamented in the Late-Celtic style. The date of the collar from the Isle of Portland is approximately fixed by its having been associated with a dish of Samian ware.