Stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire, UK, in 2024
Diameter 0.9 cm.
Weight 732.4 g
The ‘East Cambridgeshire’ torc is a gold four-flange twisted
bar torc of Middle Bronze Age date. It is made of three
separate components: two very similar, undecorated, bent-
back, ‘trumpet’-shaped, terminals affixed at either end of an
exceptionally long (126.5cms, excluding the terminals) spiral
twisted bar with very regular cruciform cross-section. A neat
collar is positioned between each terminal and the torc bar,
and these obscure the method in which they were fixed to one
another, which may have been by use of ‘solder’. There is an
approximate gap of c.2.25-2.5mm between the flanges and the
arms/flanges having a length of c.3.3-5mm. The spiral of the
bar has been created by twisting it in an anti-clockwise
direction. The edges of the flanges are slightly ‘lipped’ or
‘burred’. The weight of the ‘East Cambridgeshire’ torc makes
it one of the heaviest and largest of its type ever found in
Britain & Ireland.
See also:
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2024/05/08