Object: Torc
Classification: Ribbon
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate XIII, 102, R 1550, W 291., *purchased from Mr. W. Hynes of Ballinasloe.
Site: Ireland, King's Co, Clonmacnois
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Width (mm): 141 x 160
Weight (g): 59.93
Composition: gold
Associations: Stated to have been found with the tubular La Tène torque (see Museum Catalogue, Plate XIII, 98, R 551, W. 290.)
Description: Made of a twisted ribbon, with olive-shaped, hollow, terminals.
Publications: Wilde, Catalogue p. 49.
Remarks: *This Ribbon Torque & the other referred to above, were the first antiquities obtained under the Treasury, Minute of 1861.