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Fake or fortunate? The insecure provenance of the ‘Pulborough Area’ torc.

by Tess Machling & Giovanna Fregni [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.13911434 Abstract In September 2024 a paper, ‘The Pulborough gold torc: a 4th to 3rd century BCE artefact of European significance’ was published by a British Museum team in …

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‘All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order’: The riddle of the ‘Pulborough Area’ torc from Sussex.

A gold broken torc in a plastic box, resting in tissue paper. The box is sat on a notebook

by Tess Machling, Roll Williamson & Giovanna Fregni [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10511405 The ‘Pulborough Area’ torc is a chimera: apparently made from the correct Iron Age material, using a valid construction technique and in a known form, however, …

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