Object: Torc
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Taunton Castle Museum,This belongs to the Earl of Ilchester,Melbury, near Dorchester,(Deposited on loan for a short time only.)
Site: England,Wiltshire,All Cannings,Allington Down on the slopes of Tan Hill. Found by Labourer digging for flints 18 ins. deep,11-10-1844
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: All Cannings
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1844
Width (mm): 77
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 71
Other: Width: 77 x 76mm,Greatest Thickness: 8mm approx.,Weight: 70.87 gms
Description: There are 5 spiral turns to an inch in thickest part.
Publications: Wilts. Arch. + N.H. Mag, XXXVI, no. CXIII, June 1910,Wilts. Arch.. Mag., XI, 10,Arch Inst. Salisbury, Vol. 1849, p. III, fig. 31,Archaeologia, XXXIX, 507.,Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond. 1 Ser. 1, 226,Proc. Som. Arch. Soc., Vol. LX, pl.ii, p. 81.