Another double ring, Devonshire, weighs 563 grs. (1⅓ oz. of 420 grs.).
Lincolnshire torques; 1454 grs. (3½ oz. of 415 grs.), coiled band 119½. Quadruple ring, 93½ (¼ oz.?), another similar 93.
Cambridgeshire torques (not in B. M.) 1944 (5 oz. of 387? or 4¾ oz. of 410), rest in B. M. viz.:—bracelet 613 (1½ oz. of 412 grs.), two treble rings linked together, combined weight 358, double ring, weight 132 (⅓ oz.), another 131½, two others similar but smaller are each 68 (⅙ oz.).
Wales. Two plain bracelets, near Beaumaris, Anglesea, 1028 (2½ oz. of 410 grs.); 420 (1 oz.), crescent-shaped gorget, Caernarvon, 2861 (7 oz. of 410 grs.).
Scotland. Noard, near Elgin, torques formed of a plain twisted band, 207 (½ oz.): 215 (½ oz.): 192 (½ oz.): 119 grains.
The evidence points to an ounce of 420 grs. It is worth noting that this is just 5 times the weight of the latest British coins, 84-82 grs.
Whence then did the Britons obtain this pre-Roman standard? Was it of native development or borrowed from some other people? By Britons we must be careful to express not all the natives of Britain. They fall most certainly into at least two groups. I. The Kelts in the East and South East. II. The barbarous inhabitants of the interior, who subsisted by hunting and fishing, and who were probably of that Iberic race, which spread over all Western Europe before the advance of the Aryans. It is only with the first group that we are immediately concerned. They almost exclusively possessed the art of coining, as is shown by the area over which British coins are found. Furthermore Caesar tells us of the close relationship of the first group to the Gauls, as is shown by their tribal names, language and customs. In addition their coinage is similar. Now there can be no doubt as regards the source from whence the Gauls derived their coinage. As they got the art of writing from the Phocaeans