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Description: | Gold torc, ribbon type, with bar terminals, broken in two places. Weight: 11 4 gms. Museum's 'slip catalogue': 'turned up by the plough in urquhart, East of Elgin Armlet dug up in the Law Hill East of Urquhart parish where 37 or 40 turned up in 1857 '. The 'Law' is a large barrow.
"Gold torc, from a hoard of 36 found near a barrow, Law Farm, Urquhart, Moray (1800BC-1000BC)"
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Gold ornaments appear in Scotland in the Bronze Age, during the second millenium BC, and continued in use into the Iron Age, although they are not common here. Gold objects were valued and represented high status. Some gold is found in burials. Torcs are made in both gold and bronze and from a variety of bar shapes. This ribbon torc is made from gold which has been beaten into a long, narrow strip, twisted into a spiral and then formed into a neck-ring. One terminal survives, and is a hook with a round section. The torc is one of more than thirty-six similar small torcs, found in a small cairn near the base of a large barrow at Law Farm, Urquhart, Morayshire. Their size suggests that the torcs may have been armlets or anklets. They may date from as late as the Iron Age."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Forbes, D Mansfield | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1800 BC-600 BC; MBA LBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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