Granta Fen Torque

Late Bronze Age

The Hunt Museum
Limerick, Ireland

A long, gold, bar-twisted torc with outward curved U terminals. The terminals are wider at the end and taper in at the neck. This torc was found with a cache of other objects of gold and bronze in 1850 in a bog at Granta Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Details

Title: Granta Fen Torque
Date Created: Late Bronze Age
Location Created: English
Type: Artefact
Rights: CC0
Collection: The Hunt Museum

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