Torcing to museums: an appreciation.www.archaeologyuk.org
Dr Tess Machling
Archaeologist, researcher, chocolate artefact maker and mum.
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Torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Often post about cats who aren't mine.....
Gold, Ghosts and a Talking Mongoose | St Albans Museumswww.stalbansmuseums.org.uk In 2019, a gold torc neck-ring was found in Pulborough, Sussex. Thought to be Iron Age, and around 2400 years old, there were suspicions that it just wasn't quite right for this time period. During re...
Blog listbigbookoftorcs.com A full list of all our papers and blogs arranged thematically, and roughly within date order, newest upper in each group... General torcs: The sheet torus torcs from Britain: an update. Beyond Snettis...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 12 Alrewas catch-upbigbookoftorcs.com Since I wrote the previous blog on Alrewas, there are a few extra things that have come up, so I thought I'd add an extra blog. Jump rings Firstly, Samantha Stanley, a jeweller contact from Twitter, u...
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | The Prehistoric Societywww.prehistoricsociety.org The Prehistoric Society invites annual submissions for the undergraduate dissertation prize. The award celebrates the dissertation that has made the greatest contribution to the study of prehistory i...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 11 Alrewas up closebigbookoftorcs.com Last week, I was lucky enough to be able to go and see the Alrewas torc bundle up close. Before we go any further, I want to say a huge thank you to curator Joe Perry and the Potteries Museum and Art ...
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The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 10 Looking at torcsbigbookoftorcs.com The next step in this journey will be to go and look at some torcs off display: so far, I have permission to go and look at three of them. But it is by no means a given that I would be granted access....
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The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 9 Theoriesbigbookoftorcs.com Hello again folks! Now we get to the fun stuff...the ideas I'm currently playing with as to how and why these five torcs (or torc group in the case of Alrewas) might have been deposited where they wer...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 8 Two torcs do not a ‘group’ makebigbookoftorcs.com Here we are again, and in this blog I'll be trying to make the case that, although there may be a localised concentration of torcs in the Tamworth region, I do not believe this to be indicative of a l...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 7 Two ‘groups’ and a knotty problembigbookoftorcs.com Hello everyone and welcome back! In this blog I want to dig a little deeper into the current theories about torcs that have been found in Staffordshire. I need to do this now because I do not believe ...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 6 Needwood Forestbigbookoftorcs.com Welcome back! Today is the fifth, and final, torc in this rather intriguing little collection. To be honest, I've saved the best until last as this really is a beauty: the Needwood Forest torc. The Ne...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 5 Middleton Hallbigbookoftorcs.com First things first: from the last blog it seems we all want to live in Torc Avenue! Several folks thought we should have more artefact themed roads, which I couldn't agree with more. Anyone know of an...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 4 Glascotebigbookoftorcs.com Firstly, a bit of a catch up! Thank you to the 150+ folks who've read the blogs so far, and to those who've subscribed to read more (remember to hit 'Subscribe' at the bottom of the page, if you want ...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 3 Shenstonebigbookoftorcs.com Well, here we are again, folks. I'll add a few updates from the previous two blogs first. As regards pronouncing 'Alrewas': Several Staffordshire people have put forward a variety of pronunciations, s...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 2 Alrewasbigbookoftorcs.com Whenever I start a new piece of work, there's always something that sets me off on the path of discovery, the thing that makes me think, 'Oooo! That's interesting, I wonder if...?'. In the case of thi...
The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey: 1 The ideabigbookoftorcs.com I love to share torc research, and any of you who follow me on social media will know that my feeds are full of snippets, thoughts and ponderings - some turn out to be dead ends, some get noted for la...
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Nicked and ‘nicked’: The Knaresborough gold ring and a possible Viking-redeposited Iron Age hoard from eastern England.bigbookoftorcs.com by Tess Machling, Roll Williamson & Mark Randerson [A download/print PDF version of the paper & Appendix 1 can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10973036...
Nicked and ‘nicked’: The Knaresborough gold ring and a possible Viking-redeposited Iron Age hoard from eastern England.bigbookoftorcs.com by Tess Machling, Roll Williamson & Mark Randerson [A download/print PDF version of the paper & Appendix 1 can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10973036...