by Tess Machling
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper]. This paper can be cited as DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15181346. While I was perusing the Snettisham volumes, I happened to notice an image of a tubular torc from Hoard A at Snettisham, torc A.1. This torc was found by Ray Williamson …
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 …
Continue reading "Fake or fortunate? The insecure provenance of the ‘Pulborough Area’ torc."
by Tess Machling & Roll 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.10511424 Abstract In our 2018 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society paper (Machling & Williamson 2018) we discussed the manufacturing techniques of the Netherurd terminal, the Newark torc and suggested ideas …
Continue reading "The sheet torus torcs from Britain: an update."
Originally published elsewhere: 10th December 2018. In a previous blog we wrote about the possibility that the Iron Age Newark torc had been redeposited during the Viking period, as evidenced by the 5mm by 2mm gash which can be seen on the interior of one of the Newark torc's terminals. This gash, as previously mentioned …
Continue reading "Did Vikings ‘nick’ the Newark torc…and the West Lindsey and Towton torcs too?"
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:Â DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4039630) Abstract This paper examines the Grotesque torc and its repairs in relation to the hoards from Ken Hill, Snettisham. It looks at the materials used to repair/modify torcs, and …
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: DOIÂ 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 …
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 …
The Big Book of Torcs 