A gigantic gold torc, so big one expert thinks it may have been worn to protect a pregnant woman, has been found by a metal detectorist in a ploughed field in Cambridgeshire. It was made from 730 grams of almost pure gold more than 3,000 years ago, and is regarded as the best found in England in more than a century.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... hire-field
Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
Apparently it was made for a pregnant woman ...
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WOW it looks like it would fit around a horses neck.
he who goes to bed with a stiff problem wakes up with the solution in hand.
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
That's unbelievable! WOW 
What an absolutely amazing find - he must have been totally stunned when he unearthed that
Once more a piece of very important history saved for the nation by a metal detectorist
What an absolutely amazing find - he must have been totally stunned when he unearthed that
Once more a piece of very important history saved for the nation by a metal detectorist
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
Stunning...
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
Spectacular is the not the word
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
How has that evaded the plough for so long and stayed complete?......... 
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The sheer weight of it alone makes the pregnant woman theory unlikely. That is an incredible find.
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Re: Spectacular bronze age torc unearthed in Cambridge
Blimey...... that is special!