torc
- Museum number
- ML.1777
- Description
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Copper alloy torc with slightly expanded terminals. Decorated with groups of incised lines.
- Production date
- 1400BC-1100BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 140 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Context: Torcs with groups of incised lines
Decorated with groups of four to ten fine incised lines, often quite worn; small moulded terminals. A La Tène Ia type, starting in Hallstatt D: found with a Hallstatt D brooch (Mansfeld F4) in Mont Troté grave 118 and with a La Tène la brooch in Les Rouliers grave 3. Also Oulchy graves 3 and 12; Les Rouliers grave 74; Tinqueux grave 15; Villeneuve-Renneville grave 25. (Fig. 1, type N)
1. Terminals slightly expanded, usually with an end-moulding and one or two simple collars.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.1777