by Tess Machling & Roland Williamson
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! …
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 …
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 …
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 …
