Me again sticking bits of one torc onto another torc, this time #Newark roundels onto the #Netherurd terminal.

Compare the tooled lines....

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#Netherurd- all dressed up in its #Christmas finery.... 😉

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Another photo that resulted from me trying to get my head around ideas - you can't sit with both the Netherurd and Newark #torcs to compare and contrast them, so this is the next best thing.

The gold pieces are cropped from the collar of #Newark overlaid on the black and white #Netherurd

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Bit of exclusive content. A video of what #Netherurd #torc terminal is like, up close.

Terminal is 62mm tall, 53mm across & 29mm deep. It weighs 114g (that's 13 x £1 coins, or 10 x £2 coins) & gold is only about 0.7mm thick. As you turn it in your hand, it's rigid, solid, heavy. Decoration is prominent & raised segments, tooling & dummy rivets feel like a landscape. The light plays as you move it. But the weight is the thing - for its size, it's heavy.

#Archaeology

https://youtu.be/8VbejZsYJGY

I made these years ago as a way of comparing the decoration on the #Netherurd #Newark , #Sedgeford and the #Snettisham Great Torc

But it's just rather pretty in its own right!

Happy Friday folks! 😊

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A pretty pic of the #Netherurd terminal today!

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The #Clevedon torc terminal which can be seen at the #BritishMuseum.

This #torc has always puzzled folks as it appears to show Stage1/2 c.4thC BC motifs on the side, but later Stage V c.1stC BC motifs on the face. This has been assumed to be indicative of longevity of art styles...

... but what if the terminal is actually a cut down torus torc of #Snettisham / #Netherurd variety, remodelled in the later Iron Age?

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#Morning everyone! If you hadn't heard of us before, you've probably now got an idea of who we are now!!

Thought it might be a fun #Sunday thing to find out what everyone's favourite #prehistory is - could be a #site, an #artefact or maybe a #museum with great prehistory!

Us? Well, obviously, we like everything #prehistoric but as @tess_machling is posting this, you know you're going to get torcs..... and the #Netherurd terminal from Scotland 🤣

So what's your #favourite?

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! 😉

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Hello folks! #TorcTootTuesday (yeah, I know 🤣) is about a #torc very few people know exist - we didn't even know it existed until 2019, when we heard a rumour about it & tracked it down.

It might be only a couple of cm's in size, it might be pretty bashed up, but the #NearStowmarket piece is evidence of another torus torc like the #Snettisham Great torc or #Netherurd - in fact it's only the 4th such torc found!

So yes, it might be a #scrap , but it's an important one!
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/02/02/near-stowmarket-torc/

Just a #pretty #closeup of the #Netherurd #torc , because it's #Monday and we all need to ease into the week gently, if we can....

Ok folks, as you know, #Netherurd is a detached terminal, removed from rest of #torc at some time in #IronAge (c.2100 years ago), before it was buried.

However, dimensions suggest it was once part of torc similar to #Snettisham Great torc and, from aperture in terminal, we know it had a similar neck-ring of 8 twisted springs...

...so I photoshopped it into a complete torc!!

The question is - which torc is lovelier? The Great torc (top) or Netherurd (bottom)?

(NB. I *will* be judging you!! 🤣)

As some of you know, as well as looking at #torcs & #gold, I also make #chocolate #archaeological #artefacts .

It's a #hobby, I don't sell them & often only make something a couple of times. I do it for the challenge!

Rules are it has to be 100% edible & can't have hidden props or internal supports.

As we're heading into the weekend, here's one I made earlier: a chocolate #replica of the #Netherurd torc, as it might have been.

...and to my knowledge the only replica of this torc ever made! 🤣

Some #torc photos you won't often see. #gold #artefacts are often seen as #treasure / #bling - we forget they are artefacts with #archaeological stories.

You'll find I'm interested in insides, backsides + bottoms of things - that's where we see how something was made.

Here is inside + back of #Netherurd terminal, back of Blair Drummond wire terminal + knobbly tubular torc showing seam where gold sheets joined.

These are on display in #NationalMuseumOfScotland #Edinburgh

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Thought I'd explain why the #Netherurd #torc terminal is so important - the long & short of it is because it's broken!!

Other #torcs (like #Snettisham Great torc - bottom right - and #Newark torc - top right) are gorgeous, but they are complete whereas Netherurd, by being broken, gives us the possibility to look inside the terminal, & inside is where the clues as to how it was made are!!!

And that's what we're interested in - not the #bling, but how torcs were made & what that might mean!

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....