Object: Torc
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science & Art, Dublin, Plate XII, 80, W 192., Purchased by subscription & presented to the Royal Irish Academy in 1839.
Site: Ireland, Co Meath, Tara, found 1810, on north side of the Ráith na Senad near the monuments of Dall & Dorcha.
County: County Meath
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1810
Width (mm): 454 x 398
Weight (g): 777.275
Composition: gold
Associations: found with another specimen of same type, No. 81, Plate XII.
Description: Recurved ends, one of which ends in a long rod with a bell-shaped cap.
Publications: Petrie. Proc. Royal Irish Academy I, pp. 274-276. Transactions Royal I. A. xviii, pp. 181-2, & Dublin Penny Journal I, pp. 156-157. Macalister, Proc. Royal I. A., xxxiv, Sec. C. pp. 255-256.