Collar or Great Torque at Snettisham - gold plated brass replica 1416425000

The Snettisham Large Pairs, Replica of Pairs A, also called spiral rings, is a neck ring made of metal that was common in many cultures during the European Iron Age. For the Celts, the golden torc seems to have been an important object that made its wearer recognizable as a person of high rank, and many of the most beautiful works of art of the ancient Celts are in fact spiral neck rings.
The original that served as a model for our replica was discovered in 1950 near
from Snettisham in Norfolk, England. Between 1948 and 1990, many more Iron Age objects were found in the same area. A coin stuck into the threads of this torc suggests that the hoard was buried around 75 BC.
The Great Torques of Snettisham are the most famous artifact of the Middle Ages.
British Iron Necklace and is now on display at the British Museum in London. This necklace was made with great skill and extraordinary care in the first half of the 1st century BC and is one of the finest gold objects from antiquity. It consists of 64 wires, each 1.9 mm wide: eight wires were twisted together to form eight individual metal strands. These in turn were twisted together to complete the final pair. The final pieces were cast in moulds and then soldered to the strands.

Details: - First-class museum replica of an original dated around 75 BC - Material: solid brass, gold-plated - Outer diameter: approx. 23 cm - Weight: approx. 1.25 kg