Great Torc of Snettisham
The Great Torc of Snettisham is a large neck-ring of two interlocking gold-alloy tubes with ornate buffer terminals, made in eastern England around 75 BC and worn by a high-status Iron Age Briton. It was found in 1950 in the famous Snettisham hoard excavations in Norfolk, where ploughing repeatedly revealed pits packed with torcs, bracelets and coins. The torc was cast by a lost-wax process in a gold-silver-copper alloy that gives it a pale, silvery gleam, and its twisted bodies and polished terminals are masterpieces of Celtic metalwork. Torcs signalled rank and wealth across the Celtic world