by Tess Machling
When we look at torcs, the first stage of analysis usually involves photos. We have a lot of photos: my Kindle Fire currently contains about 6000 of them, cribbed from websites and online catalogues, or taken by Roll and myself. That's a lot of pics. By going through these photos on a regular basis we …
by Tess Machling & Roland Williamson [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10511422 Background: In May 1996, a metal detectorist working fields close to Stowmarket found a fragment of gold from a torus torc terminal. The field has been walked and …
Snettisham inevitably - being the largest collection of torcs and torc pieces ever found and with the Great torc to the fore - tends to dominate the Iron Age torc world. It should not, however, be forgotten that there are upwards of fifty other torcs represented in other parts of Britain, when incomplete examples, or …
I grew up in a household with not much money. This inevitably resulted in a lot of making, repurposing and repairing. We barely ever employed people to fix things and instead my dad repaired cars and rooves, painted rooms and windows and fixed electrical things. My mum baked, cooked, bottled and darned and created worlds …
I created this illustration for a paper we've got coming out very soon, but it was too good not to do this to it. If IKEA made torcs.....
One of the greatest dangers in the study of torcs is that you very soon start to see torcs everywhere. Be it online, or in your local high street, they are ever present. You could, for example, be walking down the street when you see an innocuous sign for a door knocker, but think it’s …
Not really sure where to start with this, but here we go: our first blog in The Big Book of Torcs. I guess it might be a good idea to say why we’ve created this site, what we hope to achieve with it and what we will be adding in the future. Firstly, we wanted …
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