Object: Torc
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum, T 98.16
Site: England,Derbyshire,Purchased at Steven's Auction Rooms, London
Discovery context: auction
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 153
Width (mm): 125
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 200
Patina: Green patina
Other: Thickness: 7mm; 8.5mm; 10.5mm; 11.5mm
Description: Flat on the inner side and rounded on the other.
Publications: Cf. S. Piggot, Abercomby and Afton, in Culture & Environment Essays in Honor of Sir Cyril Fox, ed. Foste & Alcock (1962), p. 87, footnote 1.
Remarks: Apparently a Central-European Early Bronze Age "ingot-torc" in Osenhalsring the only one known credited with a British find-place (see reference above).