© British Museum
Collection of 5 Torcs
Artist: Iron Age
Location: British Museum
Date: 500-100 BC
Materials: gold
Dimensions: diameter: 20.3cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £45,000)
Vendor: Malcolm Tricker
Review number: 2336 (1969)
Provenance:
Found together on a hillside on the outskirts of Ipswich; Malcolm Tricker.
Description:
The torcs are unfinished, and are therefore of great interest from the technological point of view since they demonstrate the methods used in making such objects. They were evidently in the course of manufacture and buried for safety either by the goldsmith working on them, or by the looter. The diameter of the largest torc is 20.3 cm and they are illustrated with other torcs.
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