Torcs transformed: a fresh look at late Iron Age and Romano-British beaded torcs
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Hunter, Fraser
Date published
2025
Abstract
Torcs, particularly golden ones, are a totemic symbol of the Iron Age, both in the popular imagination today and in ancient views of ‘Celts’. In Britain this torc tradition was transformed after the Roman conquest, with overwhelming use of copper alloy rather than the
precious metals that had dominated before.
Book title
Relativism and the frontiers of Empire: critical perspectives on Roman soldiers, communities and military landscapes
Editor
Walas, Anna
Birley, Andrew
Pagination
94-109
Publisher
Archaeopress
Place of publication
Oxford
Rights statement
In Copyright
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