Record ID: LVPL-9D0ED4
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment possibly from a torc. It is a single piece of twisted copper alloy and is circular in section. The terminal is thicker and rounded. It has broken at the other end.
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Harthill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-A99B98
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold rod, possibly from an unfinished twisted torc or arm/neck ornament. It is square in section with two broken ends. These edges have been made using a swage with a triangular indentation which creates a feathery edge that has then been hammered back into the metal, as they could not file them off as they would now, and can be seen as wavy lines on the sides of the fragment (Martin Page pers comm). Similar examples have been found individually, from Paul parish (CORN-B6B241). If it is an unfinished twisted neck ornament as seems possible, then it would date from the Middle Bronze Ag…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Camborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0BADC6
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze/Early Iron Age bracelet (torc) fragment dating between 1150-300BC. The length is 82mm, width 23mm, thickness 6mm and the weight 19.73g.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH LAKES', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-B6B241
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold fragment of a twisted torc, or arm/neck ornament, with three-flanged twisted body, which is triangular in section, and expanded terminal, which is circular in section. Twisted ornaments from this period are normally four-flanged and square in section, so this example is unusual, and perhaps was rejected as it has been levered off the longer piece at one end and folded in on itself, ready to be placed in a crucible and melted down to be re-used. The terminal also looks unfinished. Similar examples have been found in a gold hoard from Amalveor, Towednack, also in Penwith, but these…
Created on: Thursday 15th May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paul', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CEB2B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of penannular copper alloy middle Bronze Age spiral twisted torc. The fragment is 68.5mm long, 54mm of which is comprised of a twisted spiral with curved peaks (5.8mm thick) and troughs (4.5mm thick), and the remainder is narrowed to a circular section (3.2mm in diameter). The fragment has a dark green to black patina with old breaks at either end. Based on the curvature of this fragment the estimated original diameter of the whole torc would be approximately 220mm. The find is paralleled by examples found in the 'Near Lewes' hoard in 2011 cf. SUSS-C5D042 which date to the mi…
Created on: Sunday 15th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-709481
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure reference number 2015 T204: a fragment of a Middle Bronze Age gold torc Potential Treasure Report for H M Coroner 2015 T204: Near Grimsby, Lincolnshire: Gold torc fragment of Middle Bronze Age date Circumstances: On the 12th of March 2015 a fragment of Middle Bronze Age gold torc was found by [ ] whilst searching with a metal detector on cultivated land with the permission of the land owner. Description: A fragment consisting of a length of the body and one terminal of a gold torc of Middle Bronze Age date. The fragment has an uneven break and the terminal is trum…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Grimsby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C8DC02
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (probably Penard phase, c. 1300 - 1100 BC) flange- or bar-twisted gold torc, consisting of a section including one complete end (Eogan 1967). The torc has a cruciform (x-shaped) cross-section with four flanges coming to a sub-square terminal where the flanges are only minimally visible. It is bent at a curved right angle shortly before the break at the other end. The complete end is square in cross-section, measuring 2.9x2.8mm. From here the flanges start to become defined and then begin to twist. At the deepest the depth between the flanges is 1.5mm d…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2015
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Droxford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-EF04B8
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short length of twisted gold torc with three arms. From a gold flange twisted torc. Metal composition: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the fragment indicated a surface composition of approximately 88-89% gold, 11 % silver, and at least 0.5% copper. Length: 35.73 mm Width: 10.35 mm Thickness: 1.09 mm Weight: 12.02 g
Created on: Friday 20th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Meldreth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-CC3000
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A three-sided gold fragment, 25mm long, now worn and flattened. This is a fragment probably from a three-stranded twisted bar torc dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c 1300-1150BC. Gillian Varndell, Curator, Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Created on: Friday 8th November 2013
Last updated: Sunday 8th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-91FB76
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy spiral-twisted torc dating to the Taunton and Penard 'Ornament Horizon' metalwork phases of the Middle Bronze Age, circa 1400-1150 BC. The present 73mm diameter annular shape is formed from circular-section bronze rod which has been twisted into a spiral. The ends slightly overlap and both have been broken in antiquity. On one of the broken ends the twist and cross-section begins to taper-off suggesting that the break is close to a missing hooked-end terminal. The other end is an abrupt break across full twist and cross-section. The evidence strongly suggests t…
Created on: Saturday 7th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.