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Description: | A fragment from a cast copper-alloy beaded torc, dating from the Iron Age or the Roman period. Length: 57.7mm; mass: 21.7g. The fragment consists of six adjoined beads (maximum diameter: 12.3mm), with a circular-sectioned aperture at one end (internal diameter 5mm, external diameter 7.9mm) and a break at the other end. Each bead consists of a central disc (maximum diameter: 12.3mm) with a smaller disc to either side (maximum diameter 8.1mm) which is decorated with transverse grooves around the circumference. The beads are joined by integral narrow-waisted portions, which are circular in section (minimum diameter: 5.1mm). The fragment has a well-developed brown patina, although the surface is pitted and in parts green where there has been loss of material, particularly on the central rib of the beads. The break at one end of the torc does not appear to be recent. In, "Celtic Art in Roman Britain", Hunter, 2008, p133 comments that finds of beaded torcs with associations confirm the first-second century AD date suggested by McGregor in: "Early Celtic Art in North Britain", 1976.
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