by Tess Machling & Roland Williamson
Prehistoric goldworkers of any period exploited a variety of techniques to create torcs. There are a number of torcs which are in their rawest form just a torc – a generally round-section rod bent to make a neck ring and fitted out with the simplest of terminals. These range in type from the bar torcs …
Part of the reason to commit our thoughts to ‘paper’ on the subject of torcs was that we have rather different approaches to the research to many in the field. I have a very much hands on approach which is tantalisingly difficult to achieve as you can’t really be too investigative with these delicate items! …
My personal introduction to torcs (apart from the casual wow factor at seeing them in the flesh, albeit behind glass at the British Museum) started in 2005 with an enquiry by Norwich Castle Museum, and its curator Tim Pestell. They were due to have an exhibition of a number of new and wonderful detectorist finds …
