![[Picture: 81.—Captive wearing the Torque.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0081-Captive-wearing-the-Torque/0081-Captive-wearing-the-Torque-q75-898x803.jpg "[Picture: 81.—Captive wearing the Torque.]")
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81.—Captive wearing the Torque. more
prisoners, punishments, slavery, people, slaves, captivity, men, topless, shirtless, torques, collars
Torques, or gold and bronze necklaces composed of flexible bars, were peculiar to the people of this country.” (p. 22)
It is not clear whether the image depicts an ancient Briton, or Celt, wearing his torque, and captured by the Romans perhaps to be sold into slavery, or whether the torque was placed by a Briton onto a captured Roman. I think by the hair style that the half-naked prisoner is a Briton.
