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Description: | Fragment of Late Iron Age 300BC to 100AD copper alloy and iron torc possibly beaded but only the end caps survive. The first measuring 24mm in length and 15mm wide and the second 23mm in length and 16mm wide. The surface may have originally been silvered or tinned.The two caps would have been the end pieces of the torc they are concave copper with an iron insert tab still existing in the middle.Similar beaded torcs are made in two pieces, with the pierced hollow ends acting as mortices into which a tenon from a flatter part of the torc (that would sit around the back and sides of the neck) would fit (Morna MacGregor 1976, Early Celtic Art in North Britain, Volume 2, cf. 206 from East Lothian, a similar but less elaborate example).
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