and some like the Grotesque Torc (pictured) had been heavily repaired The sophisticated finishing skills of the Iron Age metal workers, including the use of mercury gilding, was another surprise.
Four torcs found in Leekfrith, Staffordshire, in England, are the oldest examples of British Iron Age gold. The smallest torc was likely worn around the forearm, the others around the neck.( ...
torc-like bracelet. In the Iberian Peninsula, smelted terrestrial iron began to replace bronze in the Iron Age at around 850 ...
On discovery, this was dismissed as a 'piece of brass bedstead'.This rare and magnificent tubular gold torc was part of the ... the biggest collection of Iron Age Celtic metalwork ever discovered ...
Artefacts will help ‘highlight a little but of Cork’s history some locals may not have heard of’ One of six silver torc's dating from the Iron Age found near Rathcormack in the 19th century.
Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an ...