RT @EvelynTweedSNP: 🗣 @boundaries_scot have opened consultation on Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries.

Proposed changes will see #Doune, #Deanston, #Blairdrummond & #Thornhill moved from #Stirling constituency to Clackmannanshire & Dunblane.

You can give your thoughts at below link. https://t.co/nrDT0EsqDS

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AlynSmith/status/1658775913041993730

Bit of a behind the scenes photo - torcs are obviously 2300ish years old, utterly precious and totally irreplaceable.

So when they're moved, even a short distance, they're packed snugly and safely!

Happy Friday all...I hope you're packed snugly and safely whenever you move today! 😉

#Archaeology #Torcs #gold #travel #Scotland #BlairDrummond #Netherurd

@tess_machling has posted some amazing pics and commentary on gold torc finds from the #BlairDrummond hoard. Take a look!!

My Mum was from Blair Drummond, a tiny place, but she didn't mention losing any gold jewelry 🤔.

Close up of the filigree #torc from the #BlairDrummond #hoard which was found in 2009.

This torc is likely about 2300 years old and is very distinctive, unusually showing a very #European (probably #Greek or #Etruscan) style of #making . However, there's no reason to suggest it has to have come from continental Europe, as #craftspeople and #ideas were travelling all over at this time.

#Archaeology

Morning tootlers!!

Brace yourself for #torc spam over the next couple of days - I'm off to see these lovely things. Let me introduce you to them...

On the left is the #Netherurd torc, found in Peeblesshire in 1806, by a shepherd boy. Part of a hoard which also included 3 other torcs and c.50 coins, only this torc terminal (the end of a torc) and 2 coins remain.

On the right is the #BlairDrummond hoard, found in 2009.

They're both #IronAge and they've got stories to tell....